The Reluctant Weapon

The Lord of War arrives in such a hurry that he skids through a troupe of dancers and breaks their legs. His ruler, Tresqu, is less concerned with the news than with the damage to the floor’s graceful reputation.

A billion years after the Zoz Horde vanished, its abandoned weapon still waits in a quiet valley on Hova—an impalpable, glowing sphere with a long record of destruction and a conscience to match. Now Tresqu’s empire faces a threat from Terra: humans have captured a decontaminator ship and learned its secrets. With warships unready and the holiday in full swing, Tresqu calls on the one force powerful enough to settle the matter. But the Weapon longs for peace, not another assignment in annihilation. Can a ruler persuade a weapon that knows too well what it was made to do?

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