Toro puffed up as she stared at him and Hajduk. They were a handsome pair, weren’t they? Readily he let his previous meditations drift away, basking in the gaze of a young warrior girl. Too young for him, certainly, but he enjoying the awe in her expression. Yes, his body said, the heavens did come down to earth today.
”Ah,” he said, ”You Deluminians ain’t so bad.” She spoke oddly, archaic, and he wondered what piece of history she’d stepped out of. It wasn’t a very Deluminian way of speaking, he knew, but when so many were from other lands, what did it matter?
”I’m a soldier, from Solterra. This chunk of land, you could say.” He glanced around the arid expanse. ”What’re you doing out here, anyway? You lost?”
