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and moved into a smaller chamber that held a digital
library. There were several levitating chairs, and the electronic pads that sat
on the platform in front of the chairs held so many books she couldn’t even
count them all. She knew that the world long ago, before the technological
advances, had been primitive in so many ways. She moved over to the chair,
grabbed one of the pads, and started skimming through the digital titles that
were centuries old, and sat down. The light overhead was not overly bright, but
gave off enough illumination that she could see the detailed images on the
devices, and she lost track of time.
    “You’ve
been in here for a while.” The deep voice that came from the entrance startled
her, and she lifted her head to see Viktor watching her. He wore another pair
of leathers, these darker, almost black, and his hair was wet from his clear
recent bath. He stepped into the room and smiled down at her. “You’ve been in
here for a few hours.”
    Had
she?
    She
glanced down at the digital tablet, saw that she was already halfway through
the story, and realized that he was right. Gods, she had been in here for a
long time, and she hadn’t even realized it. “I’m sorry.” She smiled and set the
tablet down.
    “You
have nothing to be sorry about. We want you to be able to do as you please, for
however long you want to do it. This is your life now, and you are not our
prisoner or our servant.”
    She
swallowed, never hearing such kind words spoken to her before.
    “Thank
you again.”
    He
nodded in a gruff way, and moved toward the chair across from her. After he was
seated he leaned back and braced his big arms over the back of the chair. “What
were you reading?” Viktor said and nodded with his chin toward the tablet on
the table.
    “I
wasn’t actually reading … I can’t.” Embarrassment filled her.
    “We
can put a reading chip in you, if you like?”
    She
nodded. Slaves were not taught such luxuries, especially if they didn’t benefit
their Masters. “I was looking at the images, and I guess I got lost in it all.”
She licked her lips. “But from the images I gathered it was about a family on
Earth trying to survive after the third World War that devastated and destroyed
the planet.”
    He
nodded once. “That is one of Savastian’s favorites. I
don’t get to read much, but when I do have the time I enjoy the newer titles
that have come out in this century.” He grinned and flashed her
his straight white smile.
    “I
would assume you three have much more important things to worry about than
reading.”
    He
didn’t respond, but continued to stare at her with that piercing dark gaze of
his. She felt bared for him, more than a little off kilter when she was in
their presence, but only in the best of ways.
    “Would
you like to hear about our planet before we arrive tomorrow?” he asked in that
deep, slightly hoarse and scratchy voice of his.
    Mekenna nodded, licked her lips, and
settled back against the soft cushioning of the air chair.
    “Although
you have human genetics, your Cellulion blood should
be able to have you living comfortably in the extreme heat of Hades, especially
since Sessinea is not much cooler than my home
planet.”
    Although
she had never been to Hades, she did know enough about the red fire planet that
it was extremely hot because of the several suns in the sky, the lava rivers,
lakes and oceans, and of course the fire forest.
    “Most
Hades Warriors live within the protection of the mountains on our planet, but
my brothers and I have been living deep within the Fedenya caves in the center of the biggest fire forest called Goomata .
It is on the other side of the Vella Mountains, but while protected from the
heat and flames of our world, it still has a stabilized temperature to keep our
kind comfortable.”
    She
pictured the fiery world he spoke of. Back on Sessinea she had seen holographic images of Hades, and other
planets in the Stoker Galaxy, and knew