Transcription: Chapter 1 This is what Paul would bring to an end, Ishtar asked, gesturing into the clouded distance. The woman could be barely described as human. From her hyper- elongated height, which was now folded into a lotus position on a floating disk, through her narrow face, to her golden eyes and silver, gem-studded two-meter hair spread out in a peacock pattern, her appearance freaked of Xeno origins, but her DNA was as human as the woman standing next to her. Shida Gorbani was nearly 300 years old and looked to be anywhere from her upper teens to mid-twenties. Her skin had the fineness of youth, ...
