To begin with there is a torrential, 100-'year' storm that hits
Kee/Doroon called the "espis" (time of waters). With
nightly thunder heralding this 'time'; Great flash floods which
will clean the land washing away the dead and dying forest and
anything/anyone/any animal in it's path, flushing out into the
oceans.
Boom flies to the colony to warn them to flee to the council
cavern. While flying back, fighting the winds completely saps
his mighty strength, even with Chauncy and Satin mentally fortifying
him. A downdraft throws him down and massive falling tree limbs
bury him.
There is a Hired mercenary, D-J, that under instructions of
his evil employers, has infiltrated Doroon as a colonist, his
objective - to capture a Keegreet (for mysterious reasons.)
D-J (who doesn't know he is really an Ergan, of the lost Kee
nation) is on a 'hunting' trip into the woods when the winds
hit. Hiding in a mock tree, he sees Boom fall and goes to his
aid (lots of possibilities there!)
Sandy aborts her baby because of the new assassination attack
on her, (yes, still the assassins are after her). Satin telekinetically
transports the aborted baby into her womb. The baby doesn't
take nourishment from Satin, so with Chauncy's help she transports
it "into" sterile Feena after they convince her to
take the baby. Race is still struggling to accept it as 'his'
child, for Lief is dead at his hands.
All these and more stories develop in the same manner as "Race
for Doroon"; the chapters are very episodal and move fast.
Neither Sandy nor Race know Feena carries the child as "Sandy
has already lost the child once and the Keeborn do not know
if Feena will carry the baby"; it's "kept secret per
Stan’s orders", which of course also causes problems
for Skip who secretly loves her deeply.
In Search of the Kee stories are even more fascinating to me than
Race for Doroon was. The same characters pop in with a few splatterings
of new personalities... But ultimately the reader learns more
about the Worlds that the Kee fled to when Heptune was destroyed,
and more about the Keekinds... and then the race is on to find
all the Kee Kinds before they destroy their universe, in: "In
search of the Kee". - Gloria
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