The Red Queen

On the way to a diplomatic mission on Peekaboo Prime, Egg is taken prisoner by the rebels of the Outer Reaches – three planets at the edge of the Federation that feel they have been wronged. Egg’s capture was no accident – someone on Aerianna betrayed her.

Alone, without any of her sisters to help her, she does the improbable . . . she befriends the rebels and declares war on the Federation.

The Myst Tree had foreseen this turn of events and provided our heroine with one of his incomprehensible riddles . . .
“An unstable dynamic, far versus near
A happenstance of nature, nothing to fear
Alter the equation on this universal fuss
Turning a negative into a galactic plus
At the end of the tunnel is the answer you seek
Transforming the angry into the mild and meek.”