CHAPTER 175

EDEN

Vengal sat in his office on the main Eden airfield. He had long grown accustom to the constant roar of the Raptors taking off and landing, and it filled him with pride at each surge of power the Raptor's represented. Tareif's office and command headquarters was on the far side of Eden so one attack did not kill them both. He had grown quite fond of the High Elf War Master, and over the last weeks he and Tareif had become fast friends, as had their wives. This was a non-training day for his troops, and the airfield was unusually quiet today. He looked out the window of his office while sipping the tea and plugged in the data pad to the desk monitor. He looked forward to these communications from Anuk each week, and he generally liked to listen to them alone at first. There were two this week, one from Anuk and the other from an unknown source Dekton did not know. He plugged in the one from the unknown source first and clicked on the monitor.