14
Alexius
The finest food in the Vega System tasted like ash and mud. The delicacies offered at the queen’s table were not common on Syrax, at least in the months I’d been here undercover. In fact, under her rule, most of the people on her home world were half-starved and going mad.
Not that she cared about her people. Queen Raya had one love, and that was power.
Power over Velerion.
Power over the new Starfighter from Earth.
Power over me.
I’d tried to stay out of her view for most of dinner, my goal to be both invisible and silent where she was concerned. Unfortunately I was neither now. She looked my way, the gleam in her eye one I didn’t wish to read into very deeply. “I was surprised to hear you were the one to bring in our newest guest, Alexius.”
I took a huge gulp of the da
