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within two phases you will fall into a catatonic state.”
    “But I can’t go
to sleep for two nights,” replies Daxu Korth, slightly delirious, using the
earth English language term for two phases.
    “Where is Dvora?
I sent for her,” the king muttered. Daxu Korth lived in the Citadel from which
he ruled the Twelve Galaxies. It was a virtual city in itself in the mountains
outside of Cassiopeia’s capital city of Shovaya, but considerably smaller
covering an area equal to five thousand acres on earth.
        The Citadel guards stood
their ground. Twelve of them surrounded the inside of the room and twenty-four
more were standing outside in the hallway. Fifty more guards surrounded the
house.
    “What has
happened, my veki?” Dvora enters the room running up to the king, who looks at
her with suspicion.
    “As if you
didn’t know,” he mutters, now gaining a little strength from knowing the woman
who wanted him dead was there, and he would have justice.
    “What are you
talking about?” Dvora giggles as if she had no idea whatsoever.
    The king then
asks for his prosecuting director, who had Dvora’s mountain villa bugged and
hidden surveillance cameras installed. The bugs that recorded all conversations
were so tiny they could go unnoticed even if they were in plain eyesight. The
cameras had been placed in every corner of the ceilings and were transparent,
the size of a pinhole. The king asked the prosecutor to turn on the device just
above the king’s mantle; on top of his fireplace.
    “Dvora,” mumbles
the king, “I’ve been having your villa monitored for the past twenty cycles.
Yes, believe it or not, our planet has circled the twin suns twenty times
already. Time comes and is gone, and soon too.” That’s when my agents
discovered it in the Rocky Verutian Mountains.” Dvora’s face dropped in
astonishment and shame. Her eyes widened in fear as she heard her husband
reveal the truth; that he had been spying on her for the past twenty years.
“Let’s see if you conducted any secret meetings there recently.”

 
        A screen that covered the
entire wall above the fireplace mantle was activated by the prosecutor’s voice.
He then fast forwarded the audial visual and set it to stop whenever there was
a conversation. When he played it back, the king saw the faces of Dvora and all
of his stepdaughters and also heard their devious plans.
    He was weakening
even more now, but managed to sit up, being helped to his chair by two maidens;
house servants. Dvora just stood there, her eyes darting around the room as if
searching for a way to escape. The king turned to the guards. “I want six of
you to go and fetch my stepdaughters, all seven of them. Find them wherever
they are.”
    “No,” cried
Dvora, “You mustn’t bring them here. It was all a misunderstanding, my veki.”
    “My ears did not
misunderstand what I heard with my eyes and saw with my ears,” seethed the
king. “You know our law. The eyes and ears of two or more together are enough
of a witness to condemn you. Guards, seize her.”
        Dvora hoped and prayed to
the Goddess of Darkness Velrshenah that the king would keel over and slip into
unconsciousness before the stronger antidote arrived. That would eradicate the
charges brought against her by her husband. She as the reigning monarch had
legal immunity. She could not be charged with any crimes as long as she reigned
and neither could her birth offspring.
    The king also
knew this of course, and so did the doctor. Physician Ochacia rushed the order
to make the stronger antidote and ordered it transported by Quantum Action. It
arrived instantaneously. Quantum Action did not work on living things as of
yet, but the king had brought all of the best scientists in the Twelve Galaxies
Cluster to the royal Citadel laboratories two thousand years before to improve
it. Quantum Action had come into use for emergency situations only. The king
made it a law confirmed by the Royal Council