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off sharply, and as he
pushed the two wheeler even faster downhill, she surrendered instead to the
rush of adrenaline charging through her body, trusting Genesis’ obvious ability
even as the world blurred around her.
    She squinted. At the end of the seemingly endless descent, a
big blue body of water glinted under the harsh trio of suns. And in the far
distance, the gold-red peak of a mountain reared into the rosy sky.
    The excitement that curled through her belly came from a far
different place as she scanned up high. The airwave transmitter tower would
surely be on the mountain summit? Only when they were closer to the lake did
she drag her stare away to see a row of tentlike structures strung along the
shoreline of the water.
    She frowned. Was this where Genesis and his people lived?
    Movement caught the corner of her eye. Auron and Trasean
cleared the ridge to their far right and hurtled toward the mini tent city,
powdery plumes of the fine red sand trailing beneath their cercannes.
    Even above the wind she made out Genesis’ shout of victory,
which sounded more like a war cry from some battle-hardened warrior.
    She clung to him all the harder, her imagination running
riot at what it would be like to have him as her lover, experience his skill
firsthand.
    Thank the lord her mother had taught her daughters to read.
    Though Eden might never have been with a man, she’d read
books, even climaxed to them on occasion when one of her hands had crept
between her legs to ease the ache burgeoning within.
    The land abruptly leveled out beneath them and within
minutes the encampment loomed ahead. A pair of long-snouted creatures the size
of Rottweilers appeared from between two of the tent structures and loped
toward them, their short, round ears flipping back and forward, their red and
white fur seemingly rising and falling along their backs.
    Genesis pulled the cercanne up in a one-eighty, the
spiked rear wheel sliding out from beneath them, a cloud of red pluming up and
around them.
    She laughed, exhilarated and turned-on all at the same time.
She pulled her legs free from the stirrups, before a wet, sticky slide along
her foot caused her to suck in a startled breath, all joy cut short even as
Genesis’ deep chuckle filled the air.
    “Don’t be afraid, Sheehar . You’ve just been greeted
by Ty.” He nodded toward the other creature, which emerged through the red
dust, its fur standing on end. “That one’s Maie. They’re brothers. And our camp
guardians.”
    She allowed Ty to sniff her with his long snout before Maie
approached and gave her a sticky swipe of his tongue on her other foot. With
their fur sinking back down, she didn’t move her foot out of their tongues’
way. She guessed this was the creatures’ way of getting to know her. Besides,
she wanted to gain their trust.
    She glanced back to Genesis. “What exactly are they?”
    “ Mallakwats . One of the few animals on Carèche that have any chance of defeating a caltronian .”
    She frowned. Her dad had explained the dreaded caltronian was a bearlike creature, only twice the size. Though using a generator was a
precious commodity, her mother had insisted that she and Aline watch the many
documentaries available on Earth animals. So she had a fair idea on a bear’s
power, and could only imagine the brute strength of a caltronian .
    Before she could ask Genesis how something so small in
comparison to the caltronian could possibly win, Auron and Trasean tore
toward them, then pulled up close-by in a cloud of red.
    Auron waited for the dust to settle before he focused on
them with a disarming grin. “Looks as if our crazy prince wins again.”
    Trasean cuffed the back of Auron’s head. “You forget who you
speak to, my friend.”
    Auron’s smile only broadened as he bowed to Genesis and
rephrased, “My Prince, I knew you would win.”
    Genesis acknowledged him with a nod and a wry smile,
apparently not taking offense to the other man’s audacity. “I