” The voice speaks once more and a soft fanfare of music plays within your mind. You struggle to keep yourself from bursting out laughing. The possi...ility of this being some kind of mental break seemed more and more likely to you with each new cliche that was thrown at you. “Quest objective: Answer the call.” The voice speaks once again to inform you of what you were supposed to do, but what the hell did that mean? Answer the call? How vague could you get?The moment you think on what call it is. “Osgar, you have done an outstanding job. This planet will make a perfect home for us for a million cycles and the people will make excellent, peaceful slaves. From here we can increase the size of our fleet and conquer this entire section of the galaxy. What’s more, we’re far enough away from our old home that we won’t have to deal with our ancient enemies the Zaxdor or the Wbprng any longer.”Osgar responded, “Someday, My Emperor, I’d like to pay a return visit to the Zaxdor and repay them for. Stupid Kim, stupid!” She always suspected as much, what with the order being in the middle of nowhere, but it paid so much that she took it anyway. With slumped shoulders, the deliverywoman was about to return, but then she noticed something interesting. A side path that leads to a …secluded pool? No, it was something else. It was a natural hot spring! No wonder they build this cabin so far away from the city.Kim always wanted to go to a hot spring, but she was a bit too self-conscious to get. “Oh, the team is searching his place as we speak. The bastard had a trap, a deadfall and a bow that was set up on a tripwire, all in case he had visitors. All of which would have been fine as far as I’m concerned. He was guarding his home, and there are no laws here to say that deadfalls and such are wrong, but attacking Morales just shows why I should have gone the next step with this ass from the very beginning.“I told the Sergeant to video everything in detail, then burn the place. My gut.