Kasen growled at her sister. “Now? Now, you agree with me that he needs killing? Where was this twenty years ago? You’d have saved us all a lot of time, money, and misery!”

Fain placed himself in front of Caillen. “It’s all right, boy. I’ll protect you.”

Caillen postured at all of them. “Ha! Got my own Andarion bodyguard, bitches!”

Shahara looked at Kasen before the two of them charged. Fain drew himself up tight and covered his head while they ran past him to get Caillen.

“Hey!” Caillen snapped at Fain. “What kind of protective move is that shit?”

“Protecting my own ass, human. I don’t know what I was thinking. Your sisters are terrifying. They can have you.”

Caillen was playfully fighting them while they tickled him. Until Shahara swatted him hard across his butt.

“You’re lucky I love you, boy.”

Caillen kissed her cheek then ran behind her as Kasen lunged at him. “Help!”

Laughing, Shahara stepped between them. “All right, you two, we’ve got a real battle to prepare for.”

“What is going on back here?” Jayne asked from the flight deck door. “I have never heard such in my life, and I have three kids at home.”

“They started it,” Darling said, pointing to the Dagan siblings.

“Of course they did. Do I have to separate you people?”

“Not people, human,” Fain and Hauk said simultaneously.

“Not human, Andarions. I’m Hyshian. Learn the difference.” Jayne sidled up to Hauk. She scowled at him before she tested his brow for a fever. “You look a little pale. You all right, buddy?”

Only because he was terrified for Sumi. “If this works out, I will be.”

Nykyrian clapped him on the back. “They’ve sealed everything on Andaria. We’re the only craft that’ll be given flight clearance until Kyr’s captured. We will get that bastard. You know that.”

Hauk inclined his head to him. “If I forget to say it later, no matter the outcome, thank you all for being my family. For fighting with, and for me.”

“Estra, mi dreystin,” Nykyrian said, holding out his arm to him.

Smiling grimly, Hauk shook his arm. One by one, they each followed suit, and then they all dressed for battle.

It took almost three hours to reach Tarsa, the Gondarion capital city where both the Overseer of Justice and the main League HQ were located. A bustling major city, it was nowhere the size of Eris, but it would rival it for technology.

Even though she was no longer an active Seax for the Overseer, Shahara used her clearance to get them a landing permit. Hopefully, her code wouldn’t be flagged by The League.

Preparing for the worst case any of them could imagine, they landed.