Chapter 25
Across the wide expanse of a thousand solar systems, the viewing public of the Pan-Galactic Republic received the word: a Vrorbeast had appeared in the Arena! Millions upon millions of viewers were fascinated by the creatures, awestruck at their destructive potential, at their sheer unstoppability. The gorehounds among them, naturally, tuned in to see contestants be messily devoured. The rest, though, saw a Vror as the ultimate challenge that the Arena had to offer to anybody, and whenever a contestant randomly stumbled across one, they would perch on the edges of their seats – sometimes literally, for the more avian-like among them – to see how the hapless contestant would get out of this one. So many people had such an interest, in fact, that the Circus provided an ins
