“We’ll land there and get everyone situated before parking the sleds where nobody will find them,” Don said. We both cloaked and I followed abou... fifty meters behind him. I couldn’t see him, but the sled’s nav system could because Don had linked the nav systems in both sleds. To the rest of the world, we didn’t exist.“How fast are we going?” the Sheriff gasped as we sped through the night, obviously used to the original grav sleds that don’t go faster than a hundred knots.“Just under four. Your eyes are locked on my words.You only want to keep reading now.You feel it.You know it's true.You can feel everything that you read happening to you.You know that your feet are fully relaxing now.You know that your ankles are fully relaxing now.You know that your lower legs are fully relaxing now.You know that your knees are fully relaxing now.You know that your thighs are fully relaxing now.You know that your waist is fully relaxing now.You know that your stomach is fully relaxing now.You. “Brave Participants, today I ask you to join us once more atop the grand arena!” His amplified voice reverberated, alerting the spectators to the presence of the arriving contenders, those who stayed at the Grand Abode and those who did not, a total of two hundred men and women, humans and beasts.Soon after Zax and the one hundred ninety nine, the high echelon of the church filled their seats with Archbishop Silternja, Cardinal Northstar, His Young Eminence Stelero Mars and Sister Iaura. On the fourth day after her father's death, Princess Elaheh wandered into the kitchen and picked up a long sharp kitchen knife. None of the kitchen slaves dared to question this and she slipped the knife up her sleeve. Returning to the harem she sat beside the pool near the entrance and waited. For four hours she sat there and then, as she had hoped and expected, the Emir Mustapha came bustling into the harem and caught sight of her."Are you ready to come willingly to my bed and bear me a son?".