Dawn of Hope - Folician Chronicles 7

Chapter 6 - Reactions to the raid on Zorg

That was also sent to the Planet Mother and she almost staggered and probably would have collapsed if her Liraque hadn't been there. She was helped to the chair behind her desk and her expression was indescribable. There was no way Steel Heart could even comprehend such a thing. To deliberately set an explosive to kill people was so outside her purview that she didn't know how to handle it. Before she realized it her Liraque was starting to calm her feelings down.

"Steel Heart I am putting a block on some of your emotions since you need to be as calm as possible. This evening I will remove it and we will start dealing with it. For now, what is happening you need to be able to focus on and deal with as calmly as possible." This was going to be a very delicate process since even she was being impacted by it. How the hell could someone do this? She was being forced to calm her mind even as she was helping her Liraqua.

Steel Heart was finally able to take a step back from her instinctive reaction. Once she was calm enough she placed a call to the Admiral of the Space Fleet, *Admiral this is Steel Heart. I need all the support you can provide with the search for and removal of any and all explosive devices on Pack Zorg properties. It appears there was a device in place to destroy the central offices of the pack. I don't know what other devices there might be and we are working on evacuating the entire area.*

The Admiral, one of the few males in the Space Forces, sat up at his desk and snarled, *You have the full support of the fleet. I will start getting teams together and send them to Dawn of Hope. I am going to take over the investigation of the property until such time as any and all explosives are removed. Once I am sure the property is safe then I will start allowing the Peace Forcers onto the property. I'll keep you updated on the status.*

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Dancer, Melody, and several others were up early since they also knew of the operation. They wanted to be available in case they were needed. Dancer had talked to Cienna already and had several of the Liraque ready to go and support the operation. She knew that many of the junior females wouldn't have any idea about what happened or why. They were going to need all the support possible since it was going to feel like the pack had turned on them. To be honest, Dancer couldn't imagine what it might feel like to the normal pack members.

They had a video feed going and was being projected on the conference room table. All the senior priest's and priestesses were there as well as the others. They were following along as the teams were detaining the various pack members. Food had been brought in as was coffee and tea. For this they needed to remain in the room until the operation was completed.

When the report by the World Mother was made, they watched it and the remote connections to the various temples, on Folicia, started lighting up. In this case, it wasn't necessarily contact requests but incoming data from the temples on the feelings of the populace. The data was being processed by the temple computers and being displayed on a side wall. The primary reaction for the moment was shock and horror at what had been reported. There was a fair amount of anger which was understandable and a desire for justice. What did concern all of them was the almost blind desire for revenge.

Dancer knew the next few weeks were going to be very difficult for their world to deal with. For their three colonies, it was as well but to a lesser extent since it would be older news by the time it arrived. The most important thing was to keep as much of pack Zorg safe. If they didn't and some were hurt or even killed those responsible would start to feel horrible for what they had done. This would also strain the temples as they dealt with it. Thankfully a message had already gone out via fast courier ships instead of a general broadcast. It would be received by the various World Mothers and senior temples. It would be up to them to deal with the issue.