Alliance

"A starship from another dimension is landing near here", excitedly said Servius as he set before the slab tab in an underground cavern.

"Are you sure it wasn't just the storm you were hearing", commented Esparati sitting across from Servius on the opposite side of the slab table.

"It could even have been a shaduha shadow trick to draw us out. They know that we believe in another world outside of this dimension. They can easily manipulate our own beliefs to draw us out of hiding", Esparati proposed.

"I know but listen to me, I was outside just before the storm and I am sure it was the same starship I saw wiping out an entire squadron of shaduha shadow starships",explained Servius.

"What?", exclaimed Esparati in amazement.

"It was a glorious sight sister, wonderful to behold and I saw it with my own two eyes", exclaimed Servius.

"Wait are you saying that the elders stories of another world with others like us may actually be true?", asked Esparati.

"We don't know that yet. I mean know don't know what they look like", Servius".

"But if they are the ones the elders talked of, why a itre they here, what could have brought now", quired Esparati.

"I don't know", replied Servius.

"Give me your hands, I will see for myself", insisted Esparati.

"Very well, if you do not believe my words alone", said Servius stretching out both hands to Esparati. Taking his hands in hers Esparati started chanting, "the vision of my senses melt into yours. Seeing what you saw, hearing what your heard". Immediately they both became still as though in a trance.

Esparati mentally entered Servius' mind, searching through it until she arrived at the memory of the starship descending out of the sky navigation lights flashing. She could see the storm front approaching and the atmosphere was already heavy with the scent of rain. A powerful breeze was blowing as the starship's lowered it's landing gear.

"Landing gear deployed", lieutenant Tashinga reported.

"Good", said captain Maguire, he wasn't looking forward to the storm catching up with them while they were still airborne. Already powerful winds were beating against the starship, making staying in the sky challenging. Lieutenant Anesu had identified a clearing between two mountain ranges which would be perfect for a landing. As it would prevent the full force of the storm from directly hitting the Sandawana.

"5; 4; 3; 2; 1 touch down as the Sandawana landed".

"It has landed", Esparati announced breaking off the mental link and restoring them both to normalcy.

"We must report this to the council, immediately", said Servius.

Servius re-establishing with Esparati, they shared a thought with a senior member of the Shaduha ka of elders during a meeting of the committee. Sanse was sitting in a circle of elders, when his eyes went blank and speaking as though in a trance, began narrating, "I see a starship from another world landing. They are the legendary beings of old who passed through our dimension on their way to combat on other worlds".

"But why are they here, what has brought them?", asked Servius' during the shared thought.".

"The committee will confer with our spies within the ranks of the Shaduha shadow. Maybe it could be that Shaduha shadow something, or there is something that they did that has brought these beings from out world to our dimension", Sanse replied. Cutting mental he link with Servius and Esparati, his eyes became normal and he breathed out as he recovered from the effort of the participating in the link.

Heaving a deep sigh and tuning to the others, "my fellow elders, I need your strength. We must reach out to our watchers within Shaduha shadow to find out what they may know. To try to understand what it is that has brought an out world vessels to our shores".

Sanse held out his hands to the elders seated immediately to his right and his leld. Linking their hands with his they in turn reached out to their immediate neighbours. When the elders where all holding hands as they set in the circle, they directed their thoughts as one to commander Toluc, of the Shaduha shadow fleet.

Speaking in his mind as one through the voice of Sanse, they spoke gently to him to avoid spooking him. It was important he remain beyond suspicion in the sight of the Shaduha shadow command element. As he played a very important role in their intelligence gathering in a way that Shaduha shadow could not understand.

It was in such times times that they could turn him and he always proved his worth. He was standing among other senior officers listening to Clatra raving about the prisoner lying trussed on the floor before him. He heard, Sanse say softly in his mind," A starship from outworld sits on our land. They have never come hear before in this age and certainly not in this manner. We were thinking that maybe you may have insight as to why they are here?"

"There is a prisoner who was captured when the shadow fleet was withdrawing from the raid on out world. He is dressed in a manner that suggests that he is someone of importance in our world. It is too much of a coincidence that a starship has come from out world at the same time that Clatra is holding a being from that dimension prisoner".

"Thank you commander Tulac, you are right, it is too much of a coincidence that the two incidents are taking place at the same time. We must act fast, this time Clatra has made a lethal mistake. You have no idea how dangerous the people of our world can be if angered.

"Tell me what to do, brother?", Tulac discreetly thought back while watching Clatra hovering over the prisoner.

"We must return him to the out worlders before more of their starships enter our dimension", replied Sanse. "We must do this or face a war that neither side on Shaduha is ready for", concluded Sanse before he broke off the mental link.