’ said Renak, shaking his wife, gently, with all four arms. Seela woke up immediately, since the catastrophes she had become a very light sleeper. �...�How long will it take to reach the other side Renak?’ she said, stretching all six of her limbs with a yawn. ‘I don’t know’ he replied ‘but the sooner we set off the better’. With that they started their long journey, with the strange jerky hops, peculiar to their kind. Many hours passed without incident, when Renak suddenly stopped dead in his. "I have resigned myself to the likelihood of his capture by the Inonni. It is why it is important for us to go our separate ways for awhile, so that--" There may be some sort of escape being planned."Tarras' fork clinked to his plate. "When did you hear this? And from whom?" Uridon contacted me late last night. You were already asleep." And what did he say?"Rennis finished chewing a bite of bread as quickly as he could before he spoke again. "He emphasized it may be nothing, and he got the. If they stay put, they’re separated from their forces and render them rudderless. They’ll dissolve in days without what remains of their unity of command. And the generals will be captured or killed, anyway.“If they surrender, of course, that’s the ball game, the whole enchilada. Knowing them, they’ll only surrender if left no other choice. Here’s hoping that the people rise up and demand that they capitulate. In any case, surrounding them forces their hand, makes them react to us instead of. She shivered and trembled in fear, blinking as the light hit her eyes. Herchest heaved with panic, her eyes trying to adjust, darting around wildly,a flicker of hope that this person was her rescuer. "Stay still, ya piece of shit!" came the confirmation that this was not herrescuer. Her body froze instantly. She knew the consequences of disobeying when hewas in this kind of mood. Her scars and a few broken bones taught her to obey.Obedience had been forced, then enforced, until it was second.