"Your dreams tell you information?"
"They unlock things that linger right beyond our consciousness and put the pieces together when we sleep." She yawned. "This one seemed to have a lot to tell me."
"About?"
She twisted so she could see his face. "About everything. But specifically, about the war."
"Your dream told you about the war?"
The dream, still fresh in her mind, painted a dark picture of what the Emperor likely wanted to do. "If I'm right, my father doesn't want peace. He plans on destroying your people."
"There may not be a lot of us Rhimodians, but we cannot be wiped out. There are too many for that."
"I know. I can't imagine how he would do it. The war alone isn't enough. He doesn't have the firepower. No one does. Not for an entire system."
"No one has a weapon like that," he said.
She sighed. "I wouldn't put it past my father to try." A memory came to mind--a few days before they left. Freya said that she'd found something big in the Terran computer system. No details, but it was a large and very secret project the Emperor had active.
"Fallon," she whispered, remembering what it was called.
"What is Fallon?" Jedriek asked.
"It was my mother's name. But it was also the name of something that was found in the Imperial archival files, not long before we came."
"A code name?"
She nodded. "We could not find out what it was, only that it was something that was actively being worked on, and the Terran Empire was financing it."
"Do you think it is a weapon?"
"What else would the Emperor be making? I doubt it's a big peace celebration."
Her head started to ache, and she rubbed her temples.
"Are you well?"
"My head is just hurting. It seems to be doing that more lately."
"Do you know why?"
"Nope."
She closed her eyes. "And don't ask me if I took any medicine. I didn't. We don't seem to have a medicine doser here."
"I can give you more nanites."
"Whatever, I don't care." She held up her arm. "Go for it."
The tiny tubes came out of his gauntlets, and a needle formed, She watched it pierce her skin with hardly any pain, and then in a moment, she was injected with more nanites.
She didn't realize he was scanning her as he injected her. "Do you get a lot of headaches?" he asked.
"Off and on, yes."
"I don't doubt it."
She raised her eyebrow. "Why? What does your scanner say?"
