Chapter Eighteen: A Surprise.
They landed in the middle of nowhere. Kia walked away from the Vargsi and stared at the flat grassland stretching to the horizon, breathing in the sweet-smelling earth for the first time since Tajriba. The fuzzy tips of the tall orange-brown grasses rippled, stroked by the fresh breeze blowing across the vast prairie. Behind her majestic snow-capped granite peaks of a mountain range loomed high and forbidding.
“Now can you reveal where we are?” Kia demanded.
After leaving Tajriba, the Kadaugan had flown to Ylväs Suq, where Rial left Cheydii and Annen in charge of the Chenjerai under the guise of seeing to essential repairs and maintenance while Kia, Rial and Nagavi boarded a small space cruiser.
The Vargsi was sleek and twice as fast as Rial’s flagship wit
