‘Well tell the members of the council that are worried. Iwon’t let Borse back out again.’ said Aquitain.
‘Good!‘ replied Ignatius and he teleported away.
‘Greed and profit. It’s always the same.’ thought Aquitain. ‘Iwonder if it will ever be any different and he strolled aroundwaiting for Glammer.
Several minuteslater Glammer returned.
‘I’ve got them in this basket. I have 23 fighters and 4wizards. They are each in a crystal. Do you think that will beenough? ‘ she asked excitedly.
‘It will have to do.’ he replied. ‘Let’s go to the QueensPalace portal. That should be the safest entrance.’
Ten minuteslater Aquitain and Glammer were back in the control room.
‘Has anything happen?’ he asked.
‘Nothing much! Just a lot of noise from Adonis trying to tauntyou to come down there and we have a visitor.’ replied Miranlla.‘Rori is outside gateway 1 requesting to see you. Why is shehere?’
‘Glammer this is my Grandfather and you know Miranlla. Glammerhas agreed to help us evict anyone that doesn’t wish toleave.’
‘Did you have any success with the Mentarin?’ askedGranddad.
‘Yes I did. Glammer found him for us. He is excited at myproposal and is going to call an urgent Council Meeting and put itto the Mentarin as soon as possible. He thinks that it has a goodchance of being approved.’
‘That’s a real good start.’ replied Granddad quiteimpressed.
‘Glammer has brought 27 fighters wishing to help us get rid ofour unwelcome visitors.’ said Aquitain..
‘What? Where are they?’ asked Miranlla.
‘They are members of the Moonmist Collective mind. They wantto be Astarians.’
‘What are you up to?’ she asked looking quiteconcerned.
‘The basket Glammer is carrying is full of crystals eachcontaining a spirit of a person that lived and died on Moonmist. Ihave offered them new bodies and lives.’ repliedAquitain.
‘What? You’re mad. The power is going to your head. You can’tdo this this. You’ll upset all the gods. They will come here anddestroy us. They’ll destroy Astaria.’ She cried.
‘No they won’t. They’ll look the other way. They’ll ignore us.They’ll allow us to do exactly what we want to do because I nowknow Astaria’s secret and the gods that know the secret don’t wantanyone else to know about it. They’ll do nothing unless I try toreveal the secret which I don’t intend to do.’
‘Now I have a job for you and Granddad. I want you to arrangea meeting with the Yith Lord you met in your old home. I want totry and make a deal with him.’
‘I also expect that Heteronymous will send someone to talk tous when they discover that there is no longer a portal at TwinTowers and we should get a message from the Panmagicans at TwinTowers.’
‘You can both leave when I let Rori in and please becareful!’
‘You seem more positive. What’s happened?’ askedMiranlla.
‘When I brought Alpha back here I talked with Aquiveritas andhe told me lots of stories about gods and powers like Borse andK’wala and made it quite clear what it truly means to be a halfdragon. I am monster and an abomination. I’m a tool and aplaything. I won’t ever be accepted as either a dragon or a Newman.You and Glammer and I and many of the creatures created by LordBorse and the Mentarin on Moonmist shouldn’t exist but we doexist.’
‘We have no status as living thinking sentients simply becausewe weren’t created by the maker. Other sentients despise us asbeing unnatural. That is wrong. We are unique and valuableregardless of who created us. We deserve to be recognized as a partof creation like they are. I am going to change our status. I don’tknow how yet but I will. I have a Divinity Seed inside. That is noaccident. There must be something in it that will help. What I needis time to find it and there is a way to buy that time.’
‘Our whole situation here is little different to business inPanmagica. It’s all about magic, secrets, greed and profit.Granddad has been kicked out of Panmagica and needs a new home. TheMentarin are close, interested in maintaining their privacy andcould supply us with cheap magic items that we could resell.There’s no reason why we couldn’t set up thriving magic tradingcity right here. In time we might even challenge Panmagica itself.We can do this. This is what Granddad and our family do for aliving. If we can do that here it would give me time to work out away to be recognised. But first we need to clear these interlopersout and consolidate our position.’ he replied.
Granddad andGlammer nodded in agreement.
Aquitainteleported them all to the Mudrun southern gateway exit opened itto allow Miranlla and Granddad to leave and Rori to enter thenquickly closed it and he and Rori teleported back to the controlroom where he introduced Glammer.
Aquitain took alook at Rori’s sad face and asked what was wrong.
‘I am being sorry to be saying but Kami has been banishing mefrom the clan. I am being a person without a home.’
‘You are welcome to join us here Rori. My home is your home ifyou wish.’ replied Aquitain.
‘I am thanking you very much Spirit Lord. I am thinking thatthere are no others peoples like me here. I am thinking maybe Icould be spending some time with my yellow kin in Miranlla’s world.They are having many problems there. I am thinking maybe I could behelping them.’
‘That could be very useful Rori. You can be my specialrepresentative to the Trixies and keep me informed of any problemsthat they have that I might be able to fix.’ repliedAquitain.
‘Maybe you could be fixing their malformations, Spirit Lord.’said Rori.
‘What do you mean? asked Aquitain.
‘Kami was telling me before the storm that if little peopletook too much magic into their bodies
