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histories. The Orb was not big on concealment while killing.
    Aura sighed. “Where is she now?”
    “I have her under house arrest in Tavik’s quarters. He doesn’t mind. They have a future together. They just don’t know when it will start.”
    Ravikka rubbed her forehead as the thought of her great, great, great, great grandson with the second Terran Nameless ripped through her mind. As speaker for the seven, she could see the situation of all of the Nameless at any given time and right now, she was trying very hard not to think about her descendant and his new partner.
    Some things were better off left out of her imagination.

Chapter Seven
    Tavik’s voice was a low growl, “Submit, Sky. This will go easier if you simply surrender.”
    Sky’s muscles tensed as the heat of battle was upon her. “I will never surrender. E6.”
    Tavik winced. “You sank my battleship.”
    She clapped and raised her arms in triumph. “Woo!”
    He shook his head as he reset his side of the game. “I cannot believe that you won the third round.”
    She snickered. “I can’t believe that acquisitions were able to find this for me. I love Battleship.”
    Her hands picked the tiny spikes from her board.
    It was day two of her house arrest while the council argued about her. The previous evening, Tavik had offered her the bed while he took the couch. Surprised at his thoughtfulness, she had demurred and told him to take the other half of the bed. When they woke up tangled together, they very calmly extricated themselves without mentioning that both of their bodies had responded to the embrace.
    She was attracted to Tavik and his obtaining Earth board games to keep her entertained while she was waiting for a decision endeared him to her even more.
    Sky stretched and wandered out onto the balcony. She never got tired of staring at the star-scape in front of her. A strange glittering started on her right and she turned to watch something taking shape on what had been an empty plain. “Tavik come see this.”
    He appeared at her side and together, they watched a pillar of stone take shape.
    “What do you think it is?” Aura was standing next to Randr on the balcony in a flash of light.
    Sky blinked. She would never get used to that. “I have no clue.”
    Aura grinned and stepped forward, turning Sky back to face the pillar. “The Orb is making you a private prison.”
    Sky’s heart pounded. “What?”
    Aura laughed. “Don’t worry. A prison is required by the letter of the law, but in case you hadn’t noticed, we don’t need doors to get where we need to go.”
    Sky’s lids flickered as she absorbed the ramifications. “So, I will be able to come and go?”
    “And food will be provided on a daily basis by the acquisitions department. The official ruling will occur in a few minutes, but I thought you would like to know what is coming.”
    Sky took Tavik’s hand and squeezed tight. “This sucks. I was just getting used to you.”
    He chuckled and pressed a kiss to her cheek. “I am not going anywhere. You are not the only one who will be able to come and go from that prison.”
    Her skin tingled at the slight touch on her skin and she tried not to let the surge of emotion show in her expression, but based on the look in Aura and Randr’s eyes, she failed miserably.
    She felt the blush climb her chest and into her cheeks.
    The communication device inside the apartment chirped insistently and Sky felt a certain amount of relief. Anything was welcome if it broke the cycle of knowing glances being thrown her way.
    Tavik went into his home and answered the call of the device.
    The shimmering stone was rapidly growing into an indefensible tower with no doors or connecting bridges to the other buildings of Home.
    If Sky were to call it her own, she would be on her own with no access to any of the others.
    Aura came and took her hand. “Don’t worry. It won’t be forever. They will accept your particular task set just as they