Friday Story Bazaar ~ Tale Thirty-Nine

What’s the Value of Truth?

by
Alexander M Zoltai

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The star system was in turmoil…

It’s history was certainly tempestuous enough, though it had begun on only one of the nine planets in the system.

All nine were habitable at the start; but, only one gave birth to intelligent life—Hethal.

That life grew and progressed as a unified multitude of people.

It was the subsequent travels to other planets; and, finally, settlements of certain of the Hethal people that led, eventually, to differ...