“But he lied and it was occupied by the Coldi and still too hot for you.” Although that would change over the next fifty to a hundred years.
“The captain . . . does not want to talk to any of you. He doesn’t want to collaborate. He wants no agreements. He wants to destroy you.”
I nodded. That didn’t surprise me either.
The sound of an engine came from the mouth of the tunnel. It appeared Thayu and Reida had annexed a channel boat, which they now brought upstream. I hoped the water was deep enough here.
Lilona continued, “The captain wants to start again, as he says. But we’re tired. He’s had two opportunities at making a new world—”
“Two worlds you settled there?”
“No, there are more. But he could have come to this world and started here, but he didn’t like that there would be Paksha
