Orion's Hounds

The young Fethet was staring at Dea

The battle against the cosmozoans made strange bed-fellows, it seemed, but everyone did their part. The Fethetrit—massive red-furred bipeds with bear-wolf features, Ferengi-like ears, and vicious, hooked claws extending from their knuckles—were a race of warriors and conquerors, or so they had told her incessantly over the past two days; but here and now their task was to aid with the Shalra refugees. It was no doubt something they had done on numerous other occasions, and knew their part in quite well, but still they found it necessary to bluster and complain about how far beneath them it was. The other races in the alliance just indulged them and didn’t talk back, and Dea

After all, there were more important uses of her flagging energy. Thousands of refugees still needed processing, still waited for places to be found for them to sleep. There was no question that a nomadic society had an edge when it came to battling spacegoing behemoths, but when it came to finding new homes for tens of thousands of refugees, their abilities were somewhat more limited. Will had readily volunteered Titan’s crew and and resources to assist in the effort, only to be told by Qui’hibra that they would have been impressed into helping anyway.

But the Pa’haquel and Shizadam supervisors were driving the crew extremely hard, and Dea

Still, Dea

“We have traveled with the Pa’haquel for mille

Dea

“You are fortunate, then,” Oderi sighed. “To my people it is a memory only.”

“Is that where the Pa’haquel and the skymounts are originally from?”

“The Pa’haquel, yes. I ca

“Why did you migrate from Orion to here?” Dea

“No, but we harried them from it, drove them to seek other feeding grounds. We followed their migration for hundreds of generations, and in time they led us here, where we found another hunting ground as rich as the one we had first known.”

In modern times, the Pa’haquel alliance had clearly developed a more systematic and charitable approach to dealing with refugees, and Dea

Dea

But if nothing else, Dea