Title: A SOLEMN TASK

Book 5 of "ANOTHER BLUE"

On Chromos Eve, Walter’s grandmother Habel speaks to Walter while sitting by the fire. “Water is always taken for granted. Yet it is necessary for all that we see and hear. Like water, you must find your way and never forget how important you are to those around you.” Walter knows that the path ahead is filled with dangers that he can not imagine, but he cannot turn away.

Walter is not the only person that is searching for answers. Seline searches for how to help Brahma and her society. Rayn searches for someone’s identity to steal so he can find his family.  Sgt. Bronson searches for the wreckage of the shuttle and a way to break through the shroud of secrecy that surrounds her every action. Like water, they all find their way eventually.

Seline makes contact with Walter, who finally locates the Waters children. She facilitates letter writing between imprisoned Brahma and the children Mira and Batu. Little does she know what a Pandora’s box she has opened. Seline and Walter will never be the same.

Rayn Waters knows he must take a life.  In order to acquire a false identity, he must kill the man that he takes it from. He is torn between finding his family and having to do something despicable, but he can find no other way. The weight of this situation makes him do things he never thought he would. Too many people need him; his survival holds the key for all those he journeyed with to this planet.

Finally, General Shutlan’s search is over, when the crashed shuttle’s hull is found deep in a jungle lake. A technological marvel like nothing on Ahkam, the hull has what appears to be one of it’s fusion engines mostly intact. Sgt. Bronson’s theory was correct. However, she finds her success only brings more pain into her life: a lost best friend and the loss of her freedom. Now, mired in a deep undercover mission and feeling responsible for bringing her friend on this search only to have him killed, she struggles to not descend into depression. She thought she knew what she was searching for, but like so many of us, all she found was another mountain to climb.