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warp her until she was bloodthirsty and mad, like it had done to the Prince Consort and many of the Blood Sharks.  It was a fate he could not inflict on his worse enemy, let alone a woman who made him feel like he was alive again.
    Now when he looked up at the North Moon, it was no longer beautiful and seductive.  It was hard and cruel like Raja-kell itself.  Long ago another warrior race, very similar in outlook to his people, inhabited that bleak, frozen orb. 
    They had terrorized the galaxy for centuries until finally being driven to extinction by the outbreak of the Reptile Plague.  He saw his own people on course for destruction too, consumed by the dark energy of the Blood God.  But maybe there might be a flicker of hope in the darkness? 
    He vaguely remembered an ancient legend that an Earth woman had become queen of the North Moon warriors and had established a golden age of peace and prosperity before their final collapse.  Could Raja-kell be redeemed in the same way?  Could he?
    No longer wanting to dwell on it, he turned away and prepared to go back into the palace. 
    It was time to confront this situation with Maya.  As he started walking across the courtyard though, the House Matron, carrying an electro-lantern was hurrying towards him, her silver eyes wide with alarm.
    “Vron!  Thank the Blood God I’ve found you,” she said breathlessly as she reached him.  “You have to come inside quickly!”
    “What’s he done now?” Vron asked in a tired voice.  “Can’t I not have just a moment’s peace?”
    “It’s not what he’d done you should be worried about, it what he intends to do!” the House Matron said urgently.  “You must come, Vron.  He means to sacrifice the Earth woman you bought today.”
    Vron’s heart missed a beat.  “What?  He can’t!”  Remembering himself, he quickly suppressed the outburst and his expression became neutral again. 
    “Why should that bother me?” he asked in his usual heavy drawl, trying to push down the rising tide of panic.  He couldn’t kill Maya!  Not before he’d gotten a chance to know her, but if that was the Blood God’s will then maybe it was better this way.
    “Don’t pretend you don’t care, Vron,” the House Matron snapped.  “I saw the way you look at her.  You haven’t looked at a woman like that since Seema died.  Are you really going to stand by and lose this woman as well?”
    Vron’s barriers broke down.  “I don’t even know if she is mine to keep,” he said, his voice raw with pain.  “Why does he want to sacrifice her anyway?”
    “He had some vision that she was going to kill him,” replied the old woman.  “He’s scared out of his wits and has vowed she won’t see sunrise.
    He sent two of the guards to take her to the sacrifice chamber, but I told them you and her were in the viper gardens on the other side of the palace.  Hopefully, it should buy you enough time to make your escape.”
    Vron blinked at her.  “Escape?”
    “Yes, escape you idiot!” the House Matron retorted. 
    “I know you’ve been planning to do it for a long time, through the secret passage that leads into the mushroom caverns underneath the palace.  You have your cache of supplies all ready, so there’s nothing stopping you.  I shall deactivate the security grid so the cyber-wolves don’t come after you.  Now go!”
    Vron stared at the old woman in shocked gratitude.  He felt that he should hug her, but his own reserved manner and ingrained sense of decorum still held strong, even in the midst of a crisis.  Instead, he offered her a watery half-smile.  “I won’t forget this.”
    “There won’t be anything to forget if you don’t get a move on!”
    Vron nodded and stalked across the courtyard.  He suddenly paused and turned back to the House Matron.  “You could come with us,” he offered.
    Holding up her lantern, the House Matron gave him a weary smile.  She suddenly looked very old and tired