XII Travis

Travis Fox stands in a Horde camp of fifteen warriors and refuses to flinch, trading barbed courtesies with Menlik while Kaydessa argues for freedom beside them. He is a man of two worlds—Apache raider and space-age colonist—and he reads in the shaman's narrowed green eyes an intelligence as sharp as his own. Their duel of wills over whether the Apaches hold the south by right or by scout's trickery shapes the fragile, suspicious contact between the two transplanted peoples.