CIATB Chapter 854 Threats (Part 1)
Chapter 854 Threats (Part 1)
Badjau's eyebrows furrowed, but saw no harm in telling in the end.
"Her name is Bousa," he said, and Gaudí couldn't help but gasp a bit. Bajdau saw the old man's eyes reddened as if he was about to cry, but he shook his head in the end. "No, Bousa is a common name—"
He stopped talking and stood up. He grabbed his arm and practically dragged him somewhere.
"Let's go to Miss Althea," he said. "She has a way to test."
Now, Badjau was really confused, but he couldn't find it in himself to reject an old man on the verge of crying.
The Miss Althea was in the Re
"My mother did mention she lost loved ones before…" Badjau said, sniffling. "It was just that she was too weak to go looking for them. I never thought I'd meet any one of them…"
Gaudi also cried. "My parents died in Nova because of different disasters," he wept. "The only relative I had left after transferring here was my sister…" he sobbed. "But we got separated after we escaped from our territory that was just about to lose in a war—
"I tried looking for her, but the territory I ended up in lost in a separate war, and I was unfortunate enough to become a slave."
He lifted his head, looking at the younger Novan with apprehension. "How… how is she?"
"She's a free woman," Badjau said with a smile, and suddenly all the worries that had been haunting Gaudi were blown away. "And while life is hard—" he said, as it was for almost everyone. "She is living decently in our own corner of the world, at her own terms."
…
Althea was glad for these wholesome moments that made her day. Sadly, a couple of hours later, some more serious issues had to be tackled.
Later that day, the council met up to finalize the next step to handle Vismont.
They concluded that Vismont… was not a hostile territory, at least not in the sense that they had to get rid of them.
At the very least, they had to take away all Terrans who wished to be taken before the Extreme Heat.
They also couldn't be complacent. It wouldn't do to lose an Alterran during the rescue operations. Subsidiaries would get punished for attacking master territory, but it wasn't like they couldn't do it outside of it.
"Cain can't escape," Victor said. "Please assign him to us."
Juni nodded. She was tense in both nervousness and excitement. She had been working on her revenge for years, and it was understandable she would feel a bit antsy.
She had also actually talked to Melissa as well, and the two of them had a heart-to-heart talk that lasted for hours. Because Melissa could not get away from the territory due to her pregnancy, they had agreed that Juni would kill Cain for the two of them.
After various discussions, the people in the room turned to the two leading women in the territory, and Althea and Mathilda looked at each other in turn.
"What do you think?"
"Based on the status of the slaves there, attacking could be a bit much," one said. After all, everyone just wanted to live.
Althea's fingers tapped on the table in thought, eventually coming to a suggestion.
"Well, if we are reluctant to use too much force…" she said, pausing. "We can always… threaten."