Power
Long ago, Sam heard that power can never be taken, only freely given. Those words never impressed her much before the Mahalia case dropped into her life. The saying should have held great meaning—she had been on the wrong end of power her entire life. Being of the Luska race forced Sam to live a lie. Luska females were not permitted to be out of the house unsupervised, and being caught dressed as a male would mean being put to death as a heretic, or for being insane. Away from the Luska home world on Far Reach Station, Sam still needed to dress as a male to keep from being assassinated in the dark of night by some yahoo vigilante. Living this life of lies, she was like a lamb in wolf’s clothing for her own safety and security to earn a simple paycheck.
She might have found a safer
