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device from Banatar, who turned bright red in the face from his anger. Giving the device one last unintended squeeze in his fury, he pressed it too roughly into Ivint’s hand setting off a small beeping sound.
    Ivint looked at Grai questioningly, but calmly. Even Grai was impressed with the man’s granite nerves and confidence when the screens exploded around them seconds later.
    Every person in the room stood on their feet and watched in fascination as flames engulfed the hallways of the ship, the other screen showing the large-scale explosions from the view of the orbiting pod.
    Traze flinched a little when three of the surrounding ships exploded dramatically when hit with flying debris from the mother ship. “Oh hell yeah! That was awesome!”
    “Sir, the orbiting pod bordering that quadrant and this one is beginning to register debris!” Risk said with shock at the magnitude of the explosion. He looked back at the screen in time to see more of the surrounding ships become engulfed in flames.
    “Koda, they set it off. Be prepared, it should only take Dagog about an hour to reach you!” Grai said, speaking into a comm device he’d pulled from his pants while everyone was distracted by the explosions.
    “High Councilor, with all do respect, we don’t have much time. My brother Dagog and his forces will be coming, and he knows where some of your safe houses are.” Grai punctuated his statement by pointing to the screen with the view from the orbiting pod.
    The fleet of ships that had been set apart from the now engulfed mother ship, were heading towards the orbiting pod at a fast pace.
    “What game do you play?” Banatar demanded, his rage not diminished by the death of the Relian leader and countless council members.
    “If we had more time I would have held off on the detonation until I could explain it to you. As it stands, we have about an hour before the ground and space forces begin a full-scale attack on all of us.”
“Right now we need to try to fortify ourselves on the ground. Koda and his ships can take on Dagog, and he knows it; it's here on the ground where we need to be concerned.” Grai began when he slid a larger comm to Traze.
    Traze began typing rapidly and gave a quick fist bump when he was able to change some of the screens in the room. Spread sheets and maps began appearing on the screens not showing the Relian ships.
    “If I may, High Councilor?” Grai asked politely, nodding to the screens.
    Ivint glanced at Risk who was looking at Traze in surprise and realized the boy had just overran Risk’s computer security. Looking back at the burning Relian mother ship for a moment, Ivint nodded his head, grateful that Banatar was still silent from shock after pushing the button that killed the Relian leader.
    Grai stood and walked to one of the screens showing a map of the United States. Pointing to the many red dots on the map, Grai explained, “These are all of the locations of your safe houses.”
    “These are all of the locations of our safe houses and storage facilities.” Grai said pointing out the blue dots that were right next to each of the red dots.
    “ My forces are a mix of the different races enslaved by my father, trusted Relian’s that believe the way my brother’s, and I do, and the gifted and hybrid women we have been able to rescue over the years.” Grai paused when Banatar began to sputter as if ready to start screaming again.
    “Banatar silence! ” Ivint hissed in irritation and gave a knowing look to Reven. This is one time; he thought, where having the ability to communicate through the Shengari’ would be incredibly useful.
    Without warning, the door opened slowly to three of the girls who had come in from locations that were close by. Ivint struggled momentarily to remember their names.
    “Sir?” A heavily armed, dark blonde woman with short hair asked questioningly.
    “Drew? You were not called in here. Please go back outside. Jane and Bree, go with her.”