“I will.”
I gazed at Jacqueline’s still form for one more long moment, then turned and strode from the healing rooms.
Despite the lateness, I sent out emergency notifications to Luuciyn and Zyroth. Of course, Zyroth responded immediately. Luuciyn was either getting his beauty sleep or—more likely—rutting a female. He’d always been able to keep up with Kyvar and when we were younger the warriors would bet who would go through the most females on a night off.
I tapped the incoming holocall, and Zyroth appeared in front of me. “Vorazyr.” I greeted.
“Vorazyr.” His face held the intensity and bloodlust that had given him a variety of interesting and less than flattering nicknames among the vorpyrren. “We need to plan our response immediately.”
“I have informed you and Luuciyn of the event. Given that we are the only ones with territories on this continent, we are most impacted. Is there anyone else you think should be involved in our offensive? I will alert the other Vorazyr to the events after we respond.”
“I’m not fond of the others and wouldn’t call to them for assistance, but that is me. Whatever you do, I warn you against telling Vraxyn until after we’ve attacked the humans and gotten the female back. He has more reason than most to despise the humans and his feelings would likely inhibit good decision making.”
“Noted. How soon can you get here?”
“Six days at the earliest. I can spare a contingent of warriors to come as well.”
“Excellent. We will prepare for your arrival.” I clicked off.
Kyvar came in.
“You look like a tornado twisted you up and wrung you out.” I commented.
“You should see yourself. Our city is on alert now and I have doubled the warriors patrolling in case of any disturbances.” His eyes flickered. “I thought you would be with the female.”
“I’ve notified my brother and Zyroth. Luuciyn hasn’t responded yet, but Zyroth will be here in six days. I plan to attack the next day after finalizing our plan.”
“That would be good, except that we don’t know where they’re holding her.”
I tapped my desk screen and a hologram of the planets with a blinking dot on one came up.
“What’s this?”
“It wasn’t by accident that I called you back when you attempted to go after the five humans who escaped. I planted trackers on two of them.” I ran a claw through the raised hologram where the dot was flashing. “And why would the humans be on a small planet populated only by aggressive animals?”
He blew out a heavy breath. “So we have our target.”
“Now we just have to carefully plan for our attack to minimize casualties.”
“There’s something that bothers me. They were able to laser through our craft in moments, along with using the right frequency net to catch us.”
“There’s no way they should know that olotonium lasers are the only ones that can cut through the toughest metal in the galaxy in moments. And it should have been even harder for them to get ahold of them.” I agreed.
“Someone who knows about us is feeding them information.”
I growled. “There are few outsiders who know a great deal about us.”
“You think one of us gave them intel? It’s unthinkable.”
“What we consider unthinkable is quite possible to someone with different motivations.” My fangs extended at the thought.
“True, it’s something we’ll have to monitor.” He paused. “You never answered me when I mentioned Jacqueline.”
“There’s nothing to say. You know I left her with the physician.”
“Is there a reason you’re not there so she can see you when she wakes?”
“I have work to do.” I gestured roughly at the desk.
