They had come far in the few months since the attack on their Group home, and they had made many discoveries. They had rescued a small group of surviv...ors – humans from another Group, who had escaped from the drogs, and who had joined with them. They made a temporary camp several days’ journey from the edge of the swamp, while those unfortunates had regained their strength, and Aard and Dann had each made several exploratory trips, fanning out from there. Aard had been trailing a small herd of. So it became a man-to-man fight and that was more to the favor of the Blackfoot Braves who won. I said that Running Elk woke me just in time to keep the Crow from killing me in my sleep. Grey Wolf just smiled knowing that they may have surprised me, but they would not have been able to kill me in my sleep. To thank me, Grey Wolf gave his battle tomahawk to me. It was hand forged with a 4" curving face and 6" long head seated over a 1" diameter oak handle 18" long. It was almost as big as my. After unloading the cargo and goods from Earth upon arrival at New Eden, the great ship would make one last journey directly to the third planet to retrieve the Princess Béla, her sister and their companions. Béla didn’t understand why the Deimos Station was being abandoned at this time, but the great ship was not to dock at the Deimos Station for any reason on its return journey to Earth sometime in the next fifteen to twenty years. The Praetor had ordered it. The Praetor was the lawgiver and. I knew deep down this was my opportunity this weekend to add some variety to my life and make it more exciting. If the man didn’t show up I would have had a great weekend anyway, but would always be left with the what-if of the situation.I didn’t have to wait long to find out if he wasn’t going to show. As I walked in I spotted him at the bar and he was looking really good. Again not being one to make a move I selected a table back in the corner of the bar. I say that, but let’s be honest.