Tai Tek yelled out orders to the Commander of the Tearnat warship he was on. They only had minutes before they would need to disappear. The commander warned him that a Kassisan warship was less than fifteen minutes out. He had ordered the group of mercenaries to kill the human males and capture the female. He needed the female. It was obvious from the young Kassisan lord’s resistance when he had been held at the fortress that the male would not break. He needed the technology the young lord had on the defense systems. He was running out of resources and the technology would not only give him the tools he needed to defeat the House of Kassis but he could also sell some of it to help finance his rebellion since the middle lord, Manota, had found some of his hidden accounts and seized the c

