Spacer Clans Adventure 3: Naero's Fury Read Online Free

Adept Iselle.”
    “ Neither are we or have we ever been on familiar terms, High Adept Naero Amashin Maeris. You will therefore address me as High Adept Iselle Donovan, if at all, to my liking.”
    Naero held her tongue. She had been in the wrong, and had nearly killed people with her out-of-control abilities. That they could hold a grudge against her could be quite understandable.
    Finally, she chose to voice a general question over the continued silence. “Can anyone present please tell me more about this strange planet, Thanor-4?” she asked.
    It might help pass the awkward silence they were stuck in . She could listen without the burden of having to speak, and she really wanted to know something about this bizarre world.
    Lijuan and Fu-han brightened and took tur ns immediately, talking quietly. But they spoke informally to Naero and her people, on purpose.
    “ My older sister and I were part of the Mystic exploration team that arrived here nearly two years ago. What do you wish to know?”
    “ Lijuan and I have been to all five continents, many times. We’ve even been part of the contact teams that deal with the local near-humans. The barbaric tribes from the deep interior are barely sentient and cannot be reasoned with. But in the Bay of Thanarra, there are four main city states of near humans, where all of the four continents join together. They are very backwards and violent–especially the Vaedo.”
    Fu-han projected a holoscreen from her wristcom above them. “The four continents bunched together are: Thanarra, Vaedo r, Kallos, and Maedor, each with their own city state and culture. But according to our laws, we do our best not to interfere with them or their ways.”
    “ What is this isolated continent called again?” Naero asked.
    “ We call it Nashara, after a fabled land the natives speak of in their legends,” Lijuan said. “But the native Thanes don’t even know that it exists, yet–just as they don’t know of the monsters on the eastern half of Maedor in the deep interior. Which makes Nashara perfect for Mystic purposes.”
    “ And what purposes are those?” Naero asked.
    High Adept Iselle Donovan jumped in, commenting in general for all to hear.
    “ Well, after all, with the untimely destruction and the loss of Janosha ,” Iselle said, with stinging emphasis, “the High Masters are considering Thanor-4 as a possible replacement. This world could become the new Mystic Homeworld for the Order of Chaos Wisdom and its adepts.”
    “ Oh,” Naero said. “Very well then.” Things grew quiet again.
    Om, you are quite certain that I had nothing to do with the destruction of Janosha?
    Naero, I keep trying to explain to you. Planet Janosha was not in any way destroyed. Whether you had anything to do with its disappearance or not, it simply ceased to exist. The planet was not there any longer. There was no destruction. If there had been, there would have been some trace of it left behind, in the wake of such destruction.
    That still doesn’t make any sense, Om. No planet has ever just vanished before.
    Then it is a mystery that shall remain unsolved for the time being. Ask Shalaen, and Alala, and even Baeven. They will all tell you the same thing. We simply do not know what happened. No one does–and that includes the High Mystics.
    Collective ignorance did not re-assure Naero that she would not be blamed for the planet being gone. She had been out of control at the time, wielding Cosmic powers neither she nor anyone else could fathom or understand. To anyone’s mind, she remained the obvious suspect.
    Jan nudged her, and Naero almost jumped.
    “N…Naero…sib, they want us to go in now.”
    She shook herself.
    High Adept Chang Fu-han kept her slightly golden face and her amber eyes impassive. “Honored guests, the three High Masters of the Spacer Mystics and their guests will speak with you now. Please enter within.”
    The twins parted the entrance curtains for them to pass inside.
    Naero