Pan's Legacy

By Viola Grace

One of the Terran Volunteers, Pandora Smythe has gotten a surprising welcome to space. Taken from her home world, she is tossed into a survival situation on an alien planet and forced to fight for life as best she can. When her captors believe she is ready, she is taken to another world and becomes a pit fighter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Nov 19, 2010
• ISBN: 9781554874910

Viola Grace

Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.

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One of the Terran Volunteers, Pandora Smythe has gotten a surprising welcome to space. Taken from her home world, she is tossed into a survival situation on an alien planet and forced to fight for life as best she can. When her captors believe she is ready, she is taken to another world and becomes a pit fighter.

Granted the chance to meet her captors, surprised is a mild word for her reaction as Huek K'ptain and T'nker Biel confront her to let her know that the tales her grandfather told of an eternal fairy and evil captain were not his imagination. Pandora has something that they want...and she has no idea what it is.

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Pan's Legacy

Copyright 2010 Viola Grace

ISBN: 978-1-55487-491-0

Cover art by Martine Jardin

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Pan's Legacy

A Novella of the Terran Times

By

Viola Grace

Chapter One

Pandora Smythe stood outside the recruitment centre and fidgeted. Out of long-standing habit, she grabbed her necklace and rubbed it for advice. The gemstone warmed slightly and she considered it a good sign.

Go on, Pan. They can only say no. It isn't like they will insult your shoes or anything. Heloise Vandermeyer was a fantastic cheerleader. She even meant it.

Straightening her shoulders, Pandora went through the doors and smiled at the attendant. Hello.

The man was alien, but he had the steady features that she would look for in public-relations personnel. Hello. You are here to fill out an application?

I am. Pandora took the clipboard he extended.

Will you provide a blood sample for analysis?

She thought about it. In for a penny, in for a pound. Sure. Where would you like me to go?

Oh, right here will be fine. Efficiently, he picked up a device, inserted a clean needle from a sealed package and pricked her finger. Press your finger onto the pad, please.

Pan took a look at the pad and pressed the drop of blood onto the plate in the centre. A light turned green and she drew her hand back. She took the wipe that the attendant offered and smiled as the small wound sealed itself. Thanks.

Now, if you fill out the form, we will be able to enter you into Volunteer selection. He smiled, tucked her blood test away and waited for the next Terran to stumble through the doors.

Pandora kept a smile on her face as she filled in the form. She was unremarkable and she knew it. When the question came up about her ancestry, she gritted her teeth. It physically hurt her to write in Peter Pan, but her gemstone was blazing so hot that she had no choice.

It would probably discount her right of the bat, but she had tried. It was always in her to try even if she failed. Usually, failure was the result, but she couldn't stop herself. The urge to try new things rode her and the necklace heated if she tried to back out.

The necklace was her only true link to her grandfather. The infamous Peter Pan. He had skipped her siblings, her mother and aunts had also not been entitled to wear the stone on his death. Only Pandora, the child that he forced his name on was good enough to wear the Star of Lesser Fey.

The irony was that once she had put it on, it wouldn't come off and she had really tried. Even bolt cutters would not slice it off her neck. Her only consolation was that people outside the family didn't really see it. They could look, but not focus on it.

Smiling at the attendant again, she handed the questionnaire back to him