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Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Chapter 4 / Chapter 5 / Chapter 6 / Chapter 7 / Chapter 8 / Chapter 9

Chapter 10 / Chapter 11 / Chapter 12 / Chapter 13 / Chapter 14 / Chapter 15 / Chapter 16 / Chapter 17

Chapter 18 / Chapter 19 / Chapter 20 / Chapter 21 / Chapter 22 / Chapter 23 / Chapter 24

(short one now, but next one will be longer)

Adam – not Gallius, just a stressed-out husband, human and king.

Evelyn – The one who can handle Adam, also his wife

Chris and Wei-  twin angels or devils, depending on their mood

Jork – The god of engineering, so say we all.

Vort – Rebellius Biologist, cloner of tigers, and does not regret it. Husband of Hara

Hara, Vorts’s wife and the nurse who runs Dirt’s medical department, refuses to take her medical exams, but when she speaks, the medical professors stop to take notes.

Pylla Shishan – Dunshin, engineer, father of Kywar. The longest employer of  Jork

Hyndra is a tropical planet hit by a comet and thrown into an ice age — Homeworld to the Hunork ( a  green and yellow zebra-striped, vegetarian humanoid species about 1.2m ( 4 feet) tall, known for breathing like a plant, having four fingers and three eyes. Great botanist.

-Guess their prophecy.

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“Three months?” Evelyn stared at him, with one baby on her shoulder and one in the crib. “You are going to leave for three months to play king?”

“I don’t want to, I want to stay here, with you and the twins.”

“Then stay with us. They need their father.”

Adam wanted to agree with her and stay, but he also knew they would nag just as badly as her, and they would both feel insulted. He was more worried about her than them. “I will find a solution, okay? I promise. Something we both can live with.”

She just looked at him, then handed him Wei. “You better.”

He looked at the precious little one in his arms. He didn’t want to leave them, not now, not ever, but he knew he had to make the tour.

“What if you guys join us? We can take one of the new ships Jork is building. Spend a week or two refitting it so it has everything we need. Then you can join us. They won’t know the difference, and Hara is going too, so we’ve got the best doctor onboard in case something happens.”

“You want to go travel with two infants?” She said, looking at him, and Adam nodded.

“You’re crazy.” She said, and he shrugged.

“They are infants. What if something goes wrong? We can get attacked by pirates. Hit by meteorites, or the shield can malfunction or” He looked at her and chuckled slightly.

“And none of those things can happen here? We will have a military escort, and Hyd-Rin can pilot the ship. We will be safe. We can even add a small park and a swimming pool. Both boys can have a personal maid droid, and when they sleep, we get some alone time.”

“You think they are going to sleep?” She said, and Adam looked down at the sleeping angel in his arms, then back at her.

“Put him down then, " she said, and he moved over to the crib where his brother slept. He gently put him inside and stood up just as Wei noticed he was not held and started to scream, which woke up his brother, who joined him in the screaming match.

They both pick up one cute little devil and comfort each other as Evelyn grinned at him. “You think we ever will get peace again?”

“Well, when they are teenagers, they want to stay far away from us. When they are eighteen, we kick them out.” Adam replied

“And what about the other kids? You think we will only have these two?” She replied.

Adam looked at her and then at the two screaming, adorable devils and back at her. “Two is not enough?”

“Two is not enough, but I’ll give you a year before the next one comes.” She said with a wink, and Adam felt something he didn’t know how to describe. A mix of dread, joy, and anticipation. It was as if she had given him the best and worst answer at the same time, and he was looking forward to it.

“Two is not enough. We need a girl, too.” He replied, and she chuckled.

“Three is not enough.”

“How many?”

She winked playfully as she gently kissed Chris’s forehead and began to sing for them. He watched her, amazed. Yes, three was not enough.

Adam looked at Jork on the screen, Evelyn was taking the kids to bed.

“So, we take one of those cruise ships you have been making and turn it into our official royal ship. It should be able to hold 6000 passengers, but we don’t need that, so turn it into 500 apartments for guests and 200 for crew.  We need a functional hospital installed as well, or Evelyn comes with the twins.  Expand the hangar as well for a wing of fighters for any attack, extra shielding, of course. Oh, and an indoor park. Those cruise ships have a swimming pool, right?”

Jork looked up from his pad and nodded. “Three and two soccer fields, I can make one into a park. If I drop that many cabins, then I can fill them with a lot of stuff. What ship did you want me to make for the Hyndra people? “

“Mercy ship, yeah, stock it up with all that is needed for a mercy ship. How many of those did you get built?”

Jork checked his pad: “I had Pylla take control of that project. Let’s see: Five have been sent to Hyndra, and two are getting stocked. But according to Vorts, they only need four ships. They should have that planet out of the ice age and back into its tropical state within a year or two. Now, if we make an outrigger hanger, then we can park a mercy ship and a frigate inside. We can even have the outrigger detach and serve as a satellite if needed.”

“How long will that take?” Adam asked, hoping it would be less than a month.

“Give me three weeks with extra budget. I need to run a lot of overtime. Both Arus and Knug want those cruise ships done for their new project. I’m just glad I got so many new engineers now.”

“Just out of curiosity, how many have you hired?”

“You don’t want to know. Just know it’s a lot.”

“More than a thousand?”

“You think I only got hold of a thousand engineers from colony ships?” Jork laughed. “I will get it done, and don’t worry about it. Take care of your kids, what was it you said? Its time for some father-son time.” Then he cut the line, and Adam looked at the empty screen.

“That bastard…”  Then he thought for a moment. “Computer, how many people are employed by the Wrangler company? Show on screen!”

He stared at the number as Evelyn came in and looked at the screen, and she smiled.

“Did you think it would be lower than that?”

“I came here alone and now… “ He just looked at the number, as all the companies that were under the umbrella of the Wrangler Company were listed. Evelyn just smiled.

“Yeah, you’re still pretty dense.  Let’s watch a movie, the little ones are asleep, and I finally got some time for my husband.”

Half an h…

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