Dark Nine ❈ Dark Nine Universe Bk1 ❈

Chapter Nineteen

Rigil's POV

Location: Unknown Spaceship Orbiting Dark Ninth

I watch with steady, vile patience for our King to come – the honourable Estori of all Kor kind.

The magic connection in the room grows, sparking and throwing out strikes of nebula to release the Kor calling through. Our Estori appears holding a staff with a screw like blade on top. Our King is a unique dark blue, with matching dark blue eyes and steel black hair straight down to his waist, he stands as an 8-ft giant, a foot taller than the rest of us... he had the largest appetite... he looks curious by my call for an emergency meeting.

But Kor honour-codes were never meant to be broken, and if they were, you faced quick retribution. I believed what I found to be an emergency.

It could not go unpunished!

"Why have you called me, Rigil?" My honourable Estori comes to my side, to see what I see through the view of Dark Ninth below us. I used a spilen to capture the corruption in a hologram.

"Honourable Estori, Alpha Centauri. Look what I've found our cousins doing. This is preposterous – the most insane thing I've seen a Kor attempt, I always knew they were corrupted by insanity after E lost his fucking mind – they all followed suit!" I sneer just looking in at the close ups of the forbidden activity, "You can see what I can see?" it's a vision of Mars, embracing a female – with tenderness, how disgusting! "I know our law. Love is forbidden of Kor kind, a weakness we cannot afford. Mars humiliates us all... they have already mated and he still touches her, holding her close in an embrace – she isn't allowed on that planet, can you believe this? A God, honouring a piece of flesh. She does not deserve such attention. Since when do Kor honour prey?"

"Calm down, Rigil, I heard you the first time. You'd think they'd learn after what happened to Venus," Alpha Centauri crosses his arms and speaks calmly, barely perturbed by what I see.

I see the deeper issue.

I sneer with all my teeth, my venom dripping heavy for the female below.

"Please see my urgency. They are elevating the human female to Galactic Queen, registered in the Intergalactic Alliance this morning. I heard no call from Mars."

"We do not engage when we do not need to engage, Rigil," my Estori looks at me, looking rather angry at my own reactions, "Fights over females have almost led to our extinction. It's best you look away and leave them to their own devices, she will perish or they all will when they tear each other to shreds for her. Their foolery is not your concern, and I won't have our entire blood line cut down by your grievance and jealousy."

"I honour our law – I sustain my energy legally, and I haven't told you the worst of it, they have altered her to keep sustaining their needs, that is why she is still alive," I add.

"How do you know?" Alpha Centauri considers me beneath him, but hell, he considered all his blood beneath him. At least he is still asking questions.

"With stealth I read Venus' diary," I murmur.

"You snuck onto Dark Ninth, out of your own territory, to read E's diary?" Alpha Centauri laughs, "Why do you mock me, wasting my time when I see no issue. I see one female. On a planet of nine Kors. She's doomed or they all are. Why does it matter?"

"...honorable Estori... listen to me, they all share her, nine of them agreed to keep her, to honour her, to rise her up..." when I say this, Alpha Centauri finally takes note – and his smug smile is almost wiped from his face instantly.

"...although uncommon it is not improbable for the squad to share," Alpha Centauri speaks through grit teeth, "...it won't last..." he is still in denial.