<span style="color: #ff8000">“Order, she scares me far more than you do. I know how your powers work and how to avoid them if I need to. She... is unreadable and doesn’t express any emotion so I can’t read her by traditional means. You say I’m safe but I don’t trust that.” </span>Empress winced a little and floated away while Looker watched her leave and provided Order a memory fragment containing everything that had happened to Ashia, but also information that his father had confronted and beaten The’kal  into submission while she was gathering crystals which was why her shell was left abandoned near the planet.<span style="color: #ff8000"> “You mate didn’t obstruct your investigation, she was told it was her fault and she... you know what happened.”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #b3b300">“Beat you into standing up? Who do you think I am, a High Priestess? No, I’m just going to annoy you until you realize that living life is far better than being stuck with me.” </span>He pretended to think about it then clapped a bracelet onto her wrist that she wouldn’t be able to remove.<span style="color: #b3b300">“A wine bath might be good for your skin. Let’s go.” </span>He headed for the door but if she refused the bracelet would cause her to feel as if she was being tickled everywhere at once, while completely harmless it would eventually annoy her enough to comply.<span style="color: #b3b300"> “I’ll let you tell Alex to his face that you’ll never be a mother. I’m sure the boy will take that well.” </span>He held the door open and smiled at her as he waited for her to come along.<br/><br/>“I get it now. Maybe for our next child I can be a Harpy and we can see if it’s really as nice as it seems or at least less painful. Hey, you said it first and I just agreed with you but I see what you’re saying. Well Nyarien is Vyre’s daughter, intelligence is not the highlight of your bloodline so it makes sense that she’d be a moron too. Hopefully he’ll just kick her out and Leena moves back in with us, I liked having her around.”<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>