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calm. Her gaze was fixed on the small puffs of smoke spiraling and dying. Her lashes were fluttering.
    “Zabbie?”
    “It wasn’t me,” Zabbie said. “I told you I have no mind powers.”
    Cy looked skeptical. Titus knew Zabbie wasn’t lying. She had no clue what happened to the vessel she looked as perplexed as the others. Cy gripped Titus by the arm, dragging him from Zabbie’s side and strode to a corner.
    “I’m telling you your mate is dangerous. She must have blown up the vessel, you told her to make them explode,” Cy hissed in his ear.
    “She says she has no ability to mind battle. You can see her confusion and I don’t sense a lie, do you?”
    “No, but that’s what makes her so dangerous.”
    “Nonsense, I would know if she were a threat.”
    “Titus, look at her. She’s just standing there. No emotion. Human females are a hormone disaster. Shouldn’t she be crying or something ?”
    Zabbie was the epitome of calm. It was as though nothing had just transpired.
    “I’m not crying and I witnessed the same thing,” Titus said.
    Cy’s glare was less than impressed. “You are a warrior.”
    “And she’s not?”
    Cy blinked and took a step back. “She’s female, and human.”
    “She’s also been through something we can only imagine.”
    Titus sauntered back to Zabbie and put his arm around her shoulders. She leaned into him and for a brief second he was certain her body trembled.
    “If there is anyone left alive we will find them,” Titus said. “Since the Gorgano were still here, it’s a good sign some may have escaped them.”
    “I hope so. There was a woman whose husband was killed by a Tonan. She was in the first stages of pregnancy, before I was kidnapped. We had been on the planet for a while already. The baby, if it survived, would be a few months old.”
    Titus grimaced. The Gorgano and the Tonans would have no use for a baby. They would have taken the mother without the child.
    “I’ve never been on this planet,” Titus admitted. “We scanned it for life forms but only plant and animal registered. Tell me was there a female named Bertha ever there?”
    Zabbie turned in his arms. She lifted her hand to caress his cheek. “No, Titus. I would have mentioned already if there had been. Give her up or you’ll drive yourself insane. Insanity isn’t a nice place to be. Trust me.”
    Titus wondered at her words. She was alone for so long, he imagined her mind invented images to keep her occupied. Did that make a person insane or was it a coping method? Zabbie was a little off, but not nuts. He would have to keep her close until she settled and was feeling secure.
    “What is this planet like?” Titus asked.
    A small smile curled Zabbie’s lips. “There’s insane and then there’s plain crazy. Saddle up boys. Welcome to Crazy Town. You’re in for a helluva ride.”

Chapter 5
    Zabbie never thought she would see this planet again let alone have her bare feet sink into the sweetest grass she had ever known. It was summer where they landed, her favorite season. The air smelled of fragrant tropical flowers. A gentle breeze tickled the tips of the grass and flew wayward petals to skip across the waving tips. Beautiful, massive, chocolate dark trees with trunks larger than buses spanned the distance. Their intricate branches went heavenward for thirty feet, intertwining to seem more like enchanted bridges to each level. Zabbie and her friends spent hours in the trees.
    An ebony bug with glowing green speckles resembling a butterfly floated past. The wings increased when soaring, decreased when diving. The many eyes under the bug’s belly made Zabbie smile, it carried its young wherever it went. The sky was clear and blue and breathtaking. Immediately to her left a wall of blizzard howled. Zabbie took a few short steps to the wall that stretched upwards as far as the eye could see. She lifted her hand to wiggle her fingers in the winter season. When she drew her hand back her