First Five Friday - Alien Rule (Clans of Kalquor 2)

    Jessica and Michaela peeked between the curtains blocking the enclosed back area from the stage.  The Coming of Age Festival was in full swing, and the crowds were huge.  With all the merrymaking, a casual observer would never know a blockade of warships surrounded the planet.
    The stage was across from the object that the city was built around.  The center of Plasius' unnamed capital was a great stone altar that had been carved so long ago no one knew who its maker had been. 

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