The creature before them was definitely something he had never seen or heard about on Gor.  It looked quite monsterous and dangerous.  But the box like thing on it showed it was either domesticated, a guard or something like that.	The voice that came out of the box was the same as the other night.  "I am Kinder, a Priest King.  This is what we look like Daniel Knight.  As you can see and by the way your slave and you have reacted to seeing me, you can now see why we do not go about the world.  We use those that came here seeking us for what ever reason to go back out into the world to be our eyes and ears.  To have them blend into the society, we created the Initiative cast.  There are those of them that have no idea of what we look like or that there are those like the one in Sadar even exist.  "Come there is much to discuss and Mother wishes to see and talk to you as well."  There was also a clicking sound that the creature made but it seemed that what he had about him was some sort of translator that translated those clicks into the language of Gor.<br/><br/>It turned and moved back into the cave.  Daniel placed an arm about Kyla and a hand on Tiny to calm both and followed.  The thing called Kinder lead them into the passage beyond which was lit by globes of light.  "The lights are for those like you that serve us here.  We can see well in the darkness. "  Kinder told them.  Soon they came to the end of the passage.  Beyond was a carved out path that lead around and at points down what appeared to be a huge hollow section of the mountain.  There were others of its kind skittering up and down the walls of what Daniel could only discribe as a great cylinder of open space.  Like some one had dug a large hole in the mountain and made it perfectly round from top to bottom.  Here and there on bridges that spanned that great expance of openness peo;e moved about.  Every where Daniel looked he could see openings in the walls of the walls.  "This is the Hive.  As you can see were are insectoide in nature and have more or less a hive mind and community.  We think independetly but we can communicate with each other and if we wish let others know what we know.  Mother is what you might call a Queen back on Earth.  She is the one that has given birth to most of us here.  The Previous Mother died some time ago and there are only a few of her offspring still alive.  Our race almost died out, but for one man, much like yourself Daniel Knight.  He retrieved the only egg that held the Mother and brought it back to the Hive so that it could hatch and our race saved."<br/><br/>He continued down one of the paths leading down and back inside the solid rock once more.  Here they found chambers where people lived and others where the Priest Kings lived.  "Here we have our ships that defend Gor and Earth both.  You see Daniel Knight and Kyla.  There is another race out there that wishes to conqure both Gor and Earth.  They are called the Kurii.  They too come from another world far out in the galaxy.  They destroyed their world are seeking another to conqure and rule over.  They are huge hairy beast like creatures that are fond of human flesh.  Our race has kept them beyond the planet you call Juipiter for thousands of years.  They live in their steel worlds as they are called, huge ships that contain thousands of their kind.  Now and then they send out scout ships to Gor.  We intercept them and for the most part destroy them.  But some manage to get through and crash on Gor.  There are a number of the Kurri living on Gor.  We leave them alone as long as they do nothing to try and change things and obey the rules on technology. "<br/><br/>He brought them to chambers carved out of solid rock.  "While you are here these will be your quarters.  There will someone assigned to you to insure you do not get lost in the Hive.  "Now as to why you are here.  As I told you in Sadar, you two were selected to be brought here to work for us  out there in the world.  You already have done that by securing Sadar and the valley and the entrance to the Hive.  For some reason that area can not be covered by our security cover.  Sadar now guards that entranceway for us.  But now there is another threat that must be dealt with.  Not long ago one of the Kurii ships managed to get through.  We did not detect it till it was to late for we feel it has some sort of cloaking device that our sensors can not penetrate.  We feel this was a test run for such a thing and only because we feel it malfunctioned did we become aware of it and was able to hit it, causing it to make a controled landing.  It is damaged and we have an idea of where the ship is, but with such a cloaking device we can not locate it.  That is where you and Kyla come in.  We wish you to go find where this ship landed and plant  a beacon on it so we can locate it and destroy it.  If this technology gets back to the Steel Worlds we will be defenceless against an attack.  It must be destroyed."<br/><br/>Daniel listened to Kinder as he spoke.  He had wondered why he had been brought to Gor and now he knew.  Everything that had happened it seemed that the Priest Kings had basicly arranged to happen.  If Kyla was brought to Gor to help him, then him finding her in Ar was no coincidence and his desire to buy her either..  But he was not mad at them for it, he was glad they had brought him to Gor and Kyla as well.  They wanted Sadar to be a place to guard the only vunerable spot they had in the mountains, and had set him on a course to do it.