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take. It's also a
risk that Adira would want us to take,” Saidi said. “She brought
almost every ship to Hera to take the crodillians out in one flail
swoop, so I know she wouldn't want us to give up hope.”
    “There are risks in war,” Hildereth said.
“Right now, we don't have a choice but to take big risks. There are
no small risks in any decision we make from here on out.”
    “But the crodillians have asked for peace,”
Alura said.
    “They demanded peace or death,” Aldrick
said. “They didn’t ask us anything. Adira took the chance to buy us
time. There’s no other reason why she’d request we all surrender
without a fight.”
    “If the crodillians think the peace is real,
they'll never see us coming. Especially if they don't know about
the few hundred ships on Ares. I promise you, she’d give her life
before revealing that.”
    “I'm guessing that the rest of you are also
sided with Pyrrhus?” Alura asked.
    The entire Council shook their heads. Alura
let out a deep breath and shook her head. “Then let's make sure
this rebellion is done right and succeeds. I’ll contact Anlon and
tell him to get to his information quickly.”

    “Alura?” Anlon asked. “We haven't gotten the
information yet. We're still traveling without sonodrive.”
    “Well, initiate sonodrive and get to Ovrea
as quickly as you can and find the Elders,” she ordered him.
    “What about the crodillians? What if we get
out of the jump in the middle of a fleet? Falcone hasn’t received
any responses from other ships in the area yet.”
    “They've just said they won't kill any more
races, you'll be fine. Just get there as quickly as you can.”
    “What are you talking about?” Anlon asked.
“They want peace?”
    “The Queen sent out a message to Orion
requesting peace on behalf of the crodillians. They want no more
bloodshed, which gives us the chance to set up rebellion forces,
but we also need that information from the Elders.”
    “What are we...,” Anlon started to ask,
before he was cut off.
    “Just get to Ovrea as quickly as you can and
we'll answer all of your questions when you get back. Travel is
safe again in Orion, and that's all that you need to know for the
time being.”
    Anlon nodded and hung up the comlink. He
quickly left the room he was training in and rushed to the cockpit
of the ship where Falcone and Nimesha were bragging to each other
about their pasts. He pushed his way in-between them and cleared
his throat obnoxiously when they didn’t respond to him.
    “What do you need?” Nimesha asked. “When I
said it was going to be a while before we got there, I meant
it.”
    “We need to initiate sonodrive now,” Anlon
told them.
    “I'm not initiating sonodrive until I get a
response back from another pilot. I’m not going to be locked up in
some crodillian cell so they can eat me.”
    “It's fine,” Anlon assured them. “They've
asked for peace. We can travel safely now.”
    “The crodillians asked for peace?” Nimesha
laughed. “Who told you that?”
    “Alura just called me and told me the Queen
sent out a message for peace all over Orion,” Anlon said. “Alura
said we need to get the information from the Elders as quickly as
we can. Time isn’t something we have to waste anymore.”
    Nimesha looked to Falcone. “That was
unexpected. Why does Alura want us to get the information so
quickly? If they want peace, does it really matter how long it
takes us?”
    “I don't know,” Anlon shrugged. “She won't
tell me anything else until we come back with information.”
    “Well,” Falcone looked to Nimesha and
shrugged. “Initiate sonodrive. We're about to find out what's on
the other side.”
    Nimesha chuckled and pressed the button to
activate sonodrive. Drakos Mavros lurched forward and white
lines streamed past them through the cockpit window in blurs. Anlon
turned around and took a seat close to the cockpit. He knew it
wouldn't be much longer until they arrived on Ovrea now that