However, it wasn't as if the guardian beast was the only one with complaints.
If complaints could cause spontaneous combustion, then Duke Leander would have already been a fire hazard by now.
Because really—how come he got assigned to the sector farthest from the action?!
While the others had managed to travel to their assigned sectors and, in effect, were already able to leave, he was still out there traveling!
It was outrageous.
And it wasn't like he could just jump ship mid-route.
Well, okay—actually, he could do exactly that, but apparently, abandoning one's spacecraft was frowned upon by everyone—something about not contributing to "avoidable space debris."
Worse, D-29's battlefield stream had made him really antsy to get to Zone Four!
He'd even offered—very nobly—to eject himself manually if it meant getting there faster, but his proposal was rejected on the spot.
