bk2 pg127/Then why was he not eating it, Theta wanted to know. She went to get a trencher for Drac. She set the large wooden platter in front of him and pushed the roast mogg close enough that he could serve himself. Drac saw that there was no spoon in the dish. There was no utensil on the table. Was he supposed to eat with his hands? Yep, Vrok had just dipped his hand into the mogg on his trencher and was lifting it, dripping, up to his mouth. Drac took the roast meat from the platter, trying not to drip quite so much. Drac iscovered, chewing, that he didn’t care at all for the roast mogg. “I’ve come to tell you, Vrok, that we are willing to help you. I’ve spoken with the men aboard my vessel, and they’ve agreed that we should do all we can to help you protect your world.” “The help that you could give, Draconis, would be to go with us to retrieve the Exodus, to go then to Drakheya, and there to protect the Tetrahedron, to prevent it from ever leaving Drakheya. You are the one with the first key. You are the one who should be responsible for the Tetrahedron.” “I do feel responsible, but not especially for the protection of some weapon I’d never heard of before. Somehow I feel that I’m to blame for the trouble, the evil your priest has predicted for you.” “How could that be? You think it is because you brought Tempest into Traedonne? That was not your doing. You came to Traedonne unwillingly, pulled in the priest has told us, by a great vessel. He said he did not think that ship was Kilroyd, but he could not say what it was.” “Darian,” Drac said, “at least I think it was. I was being chased by Darian Crosscutters. A Raven was directly in front of me. I was doing my best to get away from that when we saw the big ship. It was huge, so black it seemed to blend into the blackness there, but it had lights enough that we could almost make out the shape of it. Not like any other ship I”d ever seen before. But it had to be Darian, the Raven and the Crosscutters went directly to it. Then a vortex formed and everything was pulled
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