AFIRE: fight for the Earth begins✓

14.1 GOLDSTAR

The story so far:

---- Aija is a Volunteer at the Pristine School at Innermost. She works along with Zuri and Ze, who are her friends. Aija witnesses a strange event one night – light emanating from Rez's body. The kidnapper is after her soul, next, but he leaves her alive and goes away. Another man finds her, he wants to take her somewhere else - Aija though wary of him agrees. Aija learns of the existence of the aliens – the Ytai. Also, about the R'ies and H'eon, Harvesting and Àvo from Etrie. Etrie tells her that the man, who Harvested Rez (Thieron), will now go after her. He tells her that the spy/kidnapper's name is Luka. Etrie asks her to work along with him. Aija agrees to work along with Etrie on Harvest Stopping Missions.

---- Thieron is in the Open. Alton asks to visit him – something he had been avoiding for a long time since he punched Dhor-Wo, and broke his nose and jaw. Alton is not angry with Thieron for hurting Dhor-Wo; he tells Thieron that he will send him to retrieve the Àvo. Thieron finds a photo of his family in the forbidden section of the Mansion. He hears the voices of two women in the forbidden section and wonders who lives there and what secret Alton is hiding.

---- Thieron and Nala check out a new target, and realize that Etrie's team was trailing the same target.

---- Aija's parents tell her that she has received the notice for engagement from The Leadership. She hates the idea of it, but there is no escape. Aija meets Quinn and likes him.

---- Kuna confronts her about Quinn; he seems visibly upset about it.

---- Zuri goes to her place when Kuna is there and she tells him she knows all about them. Kuna is angry with Aija for telling about them to Zuri, who is now insisting that she too, joins them.

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****14.1 - Goldstar****

The 'skrish skrish' of the cleaning bot was disrupting his thought process, and as it neared him, he grunted 'shoo', sending it in the opposite direction.

When the 'skrish skrish skrish' was a dull mumble, he looked back at the smart screen, where Reports Tab blinked with new news.

'H'eon member Tjvè spotted at 100 and 14th New Park Road Pristine City One.'

'Fifty-year-old man missing from 2000 and 10th Lo Residences, Pristine City Three.'

'Etrie Ay'tir tapped into Outbound Terra Turbo.'

'New human girl seen with Etrie Ay'tir's team.' 

Goldstar leaned towards the screen as he read the latest report. 'New human girl' it read. Had Etrie saved someone and absorbed her into R'ies? It wasn't like Etrie to keep the humans he rescued in his own team, even if they agreed to be a part of R'ies. Humans on the group were more of a hindrance than a help to Ytai, and Etrie would never keep anyone who would slow him down. Who was this person who had captured Etrie's attention enough to have her on his personal team?

The Gale had long known about the existence of the two Ytai groups. Why one of them worked to protect the Earth was still a mystery to him. The Gale had often sought the help of R'ies but soon had come to realize they weren't of much help and that the R'ies worked in tandem with the Leadership.

Why was R'ies – an alien group helping the Leadership? Why was the Leadership seeking the help of an alien group? He could never come up with a convincing answer.

But, Goldstar was sure of one thing – R'ies worked against H'eon and appreciated any information the Gale gave them about H'eon's activities. But, R'ies never worked against the Leadership, and the Gale was trying its hardest to bring down the Leadership and bring in equality among all the people.