"Sending a blind man as tribute? The god might wouldn't like this…"
"What other choice do we have? He's weak, and we have a reason to give him away."
"…the god is merciful."
The group kept whispering as the sacrifices were loaded into the divine chariot. The scout ship rushed back to Anur's crashed ship, where only Blaze and Fester dwelled now.
As for what happened to Anur, Blaze had no idea. By the time he assembled his soul after his body got destroyed in the crash, Anur was gone.
Perhaps her secret was out, and she was hunted down. Or maybe she went into hiding to fool the collective. Whatever the reason was, she was gone, but she didn't leave him empty-handed.
Blaze was on a planet unexplored by the Collective. Soon, they would set their eyes on it, but it would be too late by then. The planet would belong to him, and in the meantime, he would work on repairing the ship based on the instructions left by Anur.
