Preface

The wizards of Amity were a long way from achieving their goals. Storm had found two of his wizards and three of his apprentices but still had two sets to go. He had decided a trip to Orient was in his crystal ball. He hoped to find one of them there.

Penny and Kale had to help Alexus to claim his apprentice’s box, and they believed this was not going to be an easy chore. David also had to find his two missing wizards and tame the continent of Federation.

(Warning: contains descriptive multi-gender sex.)

Disclaimer:

If you find any of my assumptions fictitious, I would like to remind you this is a fictitious story and I have probably taken liberties with reality, as we know it.

If you find grammatical or spelling errors, they are not the fault of my editors who did try to edit my work. However, I do have a tendency to fiddle around after the fact.

The Australian Dictionary was also used so some words may appear incorrect to some. I also hope my colloquialisms are decipherable and you enjoy the story.

Background:

This story links to the Keltrian people and some of the characters in previous stories in the series called Delta. Chronologically, this is the third book in this series. It happens before and after Delta and is a separate entity to that serial in that it involves a different planet and solar system.

There are, however, links that those people who have read Delta will understand better. Hint: for those who like underlying stories, read in the order of Delta, Storm, Trixy, Coercion and then this book.

Some colloquialisms you may not know:

Bickies - cookies in the US

Budgie smugglers - also known as dick-togs or Speedos

Daks - pants

Flea market - stalls or booths set up by people to sell unwanted items. Often run by a Charity to raise money

Gunna – going to

Gonna – dying or dead

Kinda – kind of

Lucked in – got lucky

Lucked out – out of luck

Pash – passionate kissing

Pushy - push bike - bicycle

Peepers - Educational Integrative Shades, ‘IES’ or eyes. They got their nickname because they are commonly used for viewing and interacting with pornography

Shacking up - living together

Snag - sausage designed to fried or broiled

Quickie - sex with little foreplay and generally quick

Tenna - ten bucks or ten dollars

Useta - in the past, used to be

Other useful terms:

Baboo - a creature that looked like large orangutans

Bighorn - a form of cattle

Buzzes - relative of the fly

Camla - cross between a cow and a camel

Clucker - closer to chooks as we know of them

Kaboo - an alcoholic spirit - quite potent

Lanky - a form of horse that has some ass (donkey) features

Rohan - a reptilian chook, has few feathers (chicken)

Snuffler - a form of pig with warthog like features

Woollie - a long-legged cross between a goat and a sheep

Amity Time:

One year = 400 days, 10 months or 15 Earth days < an Earth year.

A month = 40 days

A week = 10 days

A day = 10 hours local or approx. 23 Earth hours

An hour = 100 minutes, Hour 5 = midday

A minute = 100 seconds (Slightly shorter than an Earth second)

Winter and summer = 2 months each

Spring and autumn = 3 months each (Due to larger axial tilt than Earth)

Shifters gestation time = 20 weeks (5 months)

Non-Shifters gestation time = 24 - 26 weeks (Depending on race)

Bighorns/lankys gestation time = 24 weeks (6 months)

Snufflers/woollies gestation time = 12 weeks (3 months)

Rohan/clucker gestation time = 16 days

Amity Money:

1 = a square coin, 2 = triangular, 5 = round.

Que, tri, rota - 1, 2, 5 cents - Bronze - 20mm a side

Queb, trib rotab - 10, 20, 50 cents - Brass - 24mm

Quek, trik, rotak - 1, 2, 5 dollars - silver 22.5mm

Ques, tris, rotas - 10, 20, 50 dollars - Gold - 18mm

0 to 9 = nil, que, tri, reh, for, rota, seh, eta, nah

10s = add a b

100s = add a k

1000s = add an s

A Million = add an xi

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