"Zack, isn't that your daughter?" boomed a deep voice over the cries of passion generated by Ratso and Janet."Yes Solomon. I just thought I would use ...er to relieve myself before you took Bill's revenge. We are ready to serve you now. Our lust has been quenched." You have done nothing to the girl to disturb her virginity?" No, of course not!" said all three of them together."Good. I really didn't know what kind of people he surrounded himself with until now!" A silence filled the room. "I like. I figured that making friends with Gorokian marketplace sellers was a good way to find out all sorts of things. I was able to buy three more shield generators, one each of the Karkallian, Gorokian, and Dubanian shields, as well as the power sources for them.I even found two used Dubanian jump drives, each powerful enough for a ship even bigger than mine. I even paid for a used Karkallian and a used Gorokian jump drive, wondering if one or more could be integrated with a Dubanian jump drive like. She rolled over to see the other two survivors just beginning to awaken as she had done a few moments earlier. All three just sat up or hunched up on their elbows and looked at each other without saying a word but they knew that it was a look of gratitude for the team work that had enabled them to get this far.They turned their heads in different directions to view and access their surroundings with each summarising the situation that faced them all.“Shelter” was all the co pilot said. “ Water. From the distance it seemed like the light from the flickering torches was avoiding his eyes and leaving his face cast in shadows.The Chief bowed and wordlessly stepped back among the others. No, he wouldn’t challenge his Chieftain.Three weeks later an obviously excited soldier entered a hall at the royal palace of Paras. He was searching for his Queen and had finally found her.“A Norgar ship is approaching the harbor my Queen. A single ship and it’s flying a blood-red flag,” he reported.