The same piece of Yosemite that hit Rainy Lake and wiped out my home on the shore killed Aeryn’s city at the bottom of the lake. Underwater shockwaves are serious business, and not many of her people survived. So she volunteered to serve. I met her again a few years later on Sunnydale when we were assembling the fleets to invade the Hyades Cluster. She and her pilot, who I also already knew from the good old days by the way, had decided to join the Cowboys. That made them the first Arnam in our ranks. They would not be the last. I managed to get them under my command, and we proceeded to kick the Shang’s collective asses out of this sector of the galaxy together. Those were good times, shared with good friends. I would fight anywhere and anytime at Aeryn’s side and be happy.

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