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quiet to think and where he wouldn’t be disturbed. Outside the sky was almost completely dark as he stood scanning the sky.
     
                  Serelath? He used his mind to call his dragon.
     
                  Yes? The dragon answered .
     
                  Can you come to me? I need to have some peace.
     
                  The sound of flapping wings overhead made him tilt his head back. Serelath had been close by when he called out for him and was there within seconds of his request. Serelath landed hard, sending small tremors running under the ground.
     
                  Thank you for coming, my old friend. He pulled his body up on Serelath’s back then gave him the sign he was ready. In one swift and graceful movement they were soaring high up into the night air passing over the peaks of his mountains.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 
    Chapter 4
     
     
     
                  When he arrived back on Lephus, there weren’t very many people to greet him. Those that remained of the Lephusans were few and weak. How in the hell was he ever going to be able to build up enough soldiers to continue with his dead leader’s work?
     
                  Zol’tsa looked around at the upturned faces of the women and old people watching him. After being away for several weeks, it felt wonderful to return to his home planet. He had a lot of work to do and needed to find able bodied men who would be willing to follow and work for his cause. He had a long road ahead, but he was determined to succeed.
     
                  His first objective was to search Ruehar’s belongings and see what he could find out about the world his former ruler had purchases females from. There had to be males on that distant planet who would be willing to join his cause for the right price. Luckily he knew where Ruehar stored the gold he gathered as he took over a planet or ran across a stray ship.
     
                  Before Ruehar perished in the battle, he had been in the process of building another transport to send to Earth. By now it should be just about ready. He was eager to begin his own reign as leader of Lephus, but he would not make the same mistakes Ruehar made.
     
                  His leader had been so engrossed with gaining females that he never bothered to look at the entire picture. Sure they were desperate for females, but also for able bodied males whether Lephusan or not. They were not a pure race, rather a race made up of several different ones. For the most part, the residents of Lephus were the rejects from other planets that no one wanted or had been exiled.
     
                  In order to build what he was dreaming of he couldn’t be picky. He needed to take what was offered to him or pay for it at the right price. At this point, he had no idea of the extent of Ruehar’s gold stash but that was about to change.
     
                  “I, Captain Zol’tsa, am now your leader. As you all know by now, Ruehar and his ship fell in the battle against the Qeterans. For this, I swear to enact revenge. There are not many of us left, so there is a need to find others who are willing to support our cause. I need any abled bodied males to come forward who can direct a transport or ship. I know that Ruehar left a few behind.” He waited for those males to step forward when he called for them. One by one each man moved through the crowd gathered on the landing pad where he waited. By the time, all those able to work a ship came forward he had a hand full of males.
     
                  “Didn’t expect there to be so little,” he said as he looked over those standing before him. A couple was beyond the age for participating in a battle, but he couldn’t be choosy at this point. “Within the next couple of days I want to send out ships to scout the universe for those who may wish