Calen Harendotes

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Chapters 34, 35, 38

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“There’ve been more attacks along the inner edge of the arm. Five planets razed and emptied.”

I seated myself in the nearest chair facing the Emperor, wincing slightly as the legs groaned on marble tile. I hadn’t heard, hadn’t had a meeting with LIO and the War Council in weeks, hadn’t had so much as a word of the situation in the outer provinces. “Is it Dorayaica?”

I ought properly to ask no questions of His Radiance, but the Emperor did not seem to mind. “We think not. They happened in rapid succession and within a few dozen light-years of one another. Dorayaica’s movements have been more precise. Punctuated. No.” Not looking at me, the Emperor shuffled a few of the pages on the table before him. He did not sit. “There have been rumors of a new chieftain among the Extrasolarians. Muddled references to a Monarch on the datanet and from a number of our informants. Apparently several of the old stations we’ve kept eyes on have disappeared. Whether this Monarch is a man or something else entirely is entirely unclear, but the name Calen Harendotes appears as well, several times. Are you familiar?”

“Calen Harendotes?” I repeated. “No, Your Radiance. It sounds like a palatine name.”

“It does. Doubtless some renegade from a house no one’s ever heard of,” the Emperor said. “A pity. We had hoped your time on Vorgossos might have shed some light on the matter.”

Demon in White, Chapter 35: Majesty, Monarch, Prophet, Princess

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