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The Cataphracts

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The Eternal Kingdom learns an important lesson about Humans, or, why the method of creating Cataphracts has dire strategic implications

After being the Eternal Kingdom’s ambassador to the Terran Federation for 20 years Zyraiel still wasn’t certain if the conference room had been designed in an effort to be comfortable to a Messenger, or merely to give the appearance of an effort towards their comfort while in fact being designed to make a Messenger feel caged. The ceilings were higher than the norm for Humans, praise be to God, but still not high enough to prevent a slight sense of claustrophobia in a Messenger. The chair accommodate its wings, but in a way that was ever so slightly uncomfortable. At least the large window, a real one not just a display, showed empty space and the lush green planet the station orbited.

The door opened, cutting off Zyraiel’s idle consideration of the aesthetics of design, and it stood to greet its counterpart. But the Human who entered was not Samuel Cooper, the Federation ambassador.


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