They never even had a chance. His eyes staring at the view of space directly ahead of him, Captain Shev Saulom couldn't help but smile. Those in the ship he were hunting were famala, depraved children of the She who had seduced and destroyed Odohm at the beginning of the world, casting all His children into five thousand cycles of bondage. He had broken those chains over nine thousand cycles ago, when He'd returned as the Redeemer, just as His Word said he would, His children and He waging a war without relent against Them ever since. " He awaits Your word to engage, Sire," he then added. —endit—