KAVALIAN GREAT SOUL DREADNOUGHT
PUMA'S PRIDE
FOUR DAYS BEHIND ARC ROYAL
"Noooo! Not there! Noooooo! You bastard nooo! Ahhhhhhhh!"
The female voice grated against Kalis's ears as he approached his father's room. Kalis stared at the door of his father's private quarters as the whimpers of pain and humiliation from the Hadarian Healer he now knew as Ceale reached him even through the thick steel door. His father had been abusing the woman every few days ever since they had left Nefoa, her cries of defiance and pain reaching into the corridor of the ship even as his father forced himself upon her, sometimes violently.
