Kriishens The Invincible Race

To Follow Or Not To Follow ... That Is The Question

Author: Kall.Berti

Editor & Translator: Shaduum

Galouzer was a large and clumsy mount and only with a lot of training and technique, it was possible to mount it safely.

_Are we going to ride this animal, father?

_What's it? Didn't you learn to ride a galouzer?

_Not too much. And I have a real distaste for these creatures.

_Yeah, you shouldn't say that. All of us in the imperial family have to adapt to the most rustic transport, be it modern or primitive.

_This is another thing that I can't understand father.

_What? Why do we need to learn how to ride in galouzers ?.

_No, that's not it. I mean ... that's it too, but why does it have to be this way?

_As ? Shangrall? Couldn't you explain it better?

_Why our race, so evolved in combat and in so many other areas, has to undergo these vexations.

_What are the embarrassments you are talking about? Asked Tallium, trying to understand his daughter.

_One of them is to put up with the slave-free pass, which can circulate in almost all of our domains. The other is having to live with many of them on almost equal terms, having to endure them in the most varied places close to the palace.

_Have you ever thought about this subject in a more profound way, or just superficially? Tallium asked, trying to meet Shangrall's eyes that never kept quiet for too long.

_What are you trying to tell me, father? She wanted to know, avoiding looking at him.

_That we really need them.

_I can't believe I'm hearing this from my real father.

Now she not only stared at him, but she seemed to challenge him to combat.

_Okay, let's talk in a way that is easy for you to understand and accept, but let's go at a gallop ... Eijhá!

_I think it will be a loss of tempus ... But come on ... Eijhá!

And they galloped out with their flashy galouzers that drew attention wherever they went, differentiating themselves by the dark colors on their backs and their soft and silky hair, contrasting with the others, which had a sloppy and lean appearance, demonstrating that they were a mount. slaves or the not infrequently forgivable.

_Could you tell me what you have learned so far, Shangrall?

_Of course. The history of our planet and all its wealth.

_Have you learned anything in practice or just in theory?

_I learned several forms of combat.

_I'm asking about logical learning and not ways of fighting.

_Yes, I learned how to rule over slaves, whether executable or forgivable, and anyone who is not part of our imperial family.

_So you know that our race is averse to domestic services, that's why there are so many slaves around here. Do you know our planet well?

_I already said yes, its history, its riches and its many regions still untouched, waiting only for a courageous explorer to place it somewhere on the terrestrial map of our powerful city.

_I want to know if you have already explored it yourself.

_Not mounted on one of these animals.

_So you never touched the stem of a freshly picked florium honey and sipped its delicious nectar?

_I've heard of something similar, but what is it?

_One of our greatest food wealth.

_Shall we see one?

_Probably thousands.

_There are so many?

_In all the fertile soil of the Harvest City.

_I don't want to go there, I hate that place.

_I don't think you have much choice.

_You can't make me go if I don't want to, Dad.

_I am not forcing you to do anything and you can come back if you feel like it. But if you want to continue with me, your mother's search has to come now. Then Tallium more than immediately stopped his galouzer and was immediately imitated by Shangrall.

_Why did you stop father?

_Because you will have to decide if you are with me or not. I can't afford to lose my tempus for nothing.

_Lose your tempus? But aren't you going to do something to prevent Rhaór's explosion?

_I need to find out something first, if our planet is solid enough at its bases to withstand tons of accelerated pressure in the event of an emergency displacement._ Do you intend to move our planet from place? She asked in surprise.

_For now it's just an idea. I have to do more research to find out if this is possible or not.

_This type of research is not done from space? I'm not understanding anything.

_And you don't have to. Just decide if you want to accompany me or return to your palace.

Shangrall stood for a moment, thinking about her options.

If she returned without her success on her mission, she was in danger of being executed and if she went to Harvest City she would also be disobeying a direct order from the emperor.

She didn't know what decision to make until she remembered one of the words that seemed to give her a free pass for this adventure.

_"Go wherever you want, wherever you need to go" ...

_I will go with you, father, even if it is in this Harvest City that I don't like.

_Very well, then let's move on, that it will take three to four days.

_All this? If it's that far, why didn't you ignore my opinion and order a navette?

_Your opinion seemed very good at the momentus and you still need to learn a lot, but it has to be close to the ground. There is no such knowledge in space.

_But I see a lot of things up there.

_I said knowledge and not eye contact. Up there, everything is good, beautiful and safe. Now close to the ground, the good turns bad, the beautiful becomes ugly and the insurance is dangerous.