CHAPTER 270

LEONIDAS I

General Vistr stood to the side of the starboard landing bay as STRIKER AT aircraft were being unloaded of the wounded. He could see Star Commander For'mya, her golden hair matted with sweat, as she helped unload the lift stretchers and barked out orders to the ground crews in the same breath. She had changed in her time with the King.

The news had spread rapidly through the fleet that For'mya had accepted the position of Bound Concubine to the King. Many viewed this skeptically for most of them knew she had not wanted the position before she had been captured and was vehement about it. They viewed it as her attempting to replace the Queen that Martin Leonidas had loved the most.

Vistr knew better.