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unclothed, you are still lovely.”
    She blushed and ran her hands through the hair that curled in wild ringlets all over her head. Stretched out, they would near her butt, but curled up as they were now, they coiled just below her shoulders. The humidity of her transformation had straightened it, but that was all over now. “Thank you. You look very charming yourself. Now, show me the mirror so that I can check up on my people.”
    He offered her his arm.
    To her surprise, she took it and let him lead her into the wide living area that seemed to have grown since the previous night. It was now large enough to hold over a dozen people with seating for all.
    “Did this place get bigger?”
    Odin smiled, “You are host to the Orb, you tell me.”
    “The Orb is busy knitting a plot of some kind. I won’t bother it.” She tapped her temple and looked toward the mirror. “Is that it?”
    “That is it.”
    She pulled up a chair and sent her thoughts toward the image. A human woman came into focus and Kali grinned. There were perks to being the host of the Orb. “Get the popcorn, Odin. I am going to be here for a while.”
    Kali didn’t know if he heard her, but she didn’t care. She had some of her own kind nearby, and she wanted to get to know them as quickly as she could.

Chapter Seven
    Halfway through the exploits of the first Terran, Kali asked for a data pad, and she was handed a pencil and paper. With intense focus, she wrote names, times and information that she needed to make sense of.
    Aura was the avenger. She was sent in to kill those who committed crimes and disappeared afterward. She was the means by which they ceased to be. Her mate was Randr, a male of a species that the Orb recognized as a randomly occurring race.
    Aura had a lot of blood on her hands but not one of those that she dealt death to was an innocent.
    When Kali had a pretty good grip on Aura, she shifted to the next Terran that the Orb brought to her mind.
    Odin brought her a cup of tea, and she sat for a moment, absorbing the pattern that she had noticed in Aura’s actions. There was a similarity in the killers that she hunted, a darkness that was terribly familiar.
    “Do you know what is going on here, Odin?”
    “No, Kali. This is between you and the Orb. I confess to curiosity, but I am sure you will fill me in when it is time.”
    Kali flushed at the mental image that she was treated to while the words fill me in ran around her mind.
    She filled her cup again and triggered the information on Sky and her partner, Tavik, the descendant of Ravikka. They were definitely in position to stop things from happening. They saved dying plant species, animal species, and the last of genetic lines. Theirs was a life between life and death, and they did the best they could.
    Sky had the peculiar sigil of a set of scissors rather than the regular dagger carried by most other Nameless.
    “Hey, Odin, why didn’t I get a knife?” Kali looked at him over her shoulder.
    “You are not to leave Home. You are the centre, the pivot point of the Nameless. You cannot leave this bubble universe.”
    She sighed and looked around. “I suppose I have just traded in for a bigger tank then.”
    He chuckled. “It is a well-appointed tank, and you are not alone. So, it is very different.”
    Kali nodded. “Fair enough. Now, onto the next one.”
    Idara was her own woman. She had spent her life being quiet and mousy only to die in a very unpleasant manner. She was paired with the dark Admaryn, Harken. He cared for her, watched over her and caught her when she fell.
    Harken was always one step behind Idara’s techniques for stopping the minor bits of disaster that folk ran into every day. Together, they worked to save one life at a time from folks who never needed to die in the first place.
    When she watched them, Kali saw the dark energy coiling in the vicinity of the disasters, but she still didn’t know what it meant.
    The last Terran, aside from Kali herself,