K: Consultation

The former King of Eks Corp didn't look like a man who had almost died a few days ago.

He did look irritated though.

Rafaela found herself staring at his familiar and yet unfamiliar face. He resembled his children, all three of them, in different ways. Brendan shared his coloration, but she thought that Kensa actually shared more of his facial structure. Lief had inherited the shape of his nose, and his eyes.

It was oddly fascinating. It was also completely irrelevant, except for the fact that it displayed the effects that a naturally occurring genetic mixture would probably have on her own child.

Regis spoke calmly, and the irritation vanished from his expression, but Rafaela felt oddly certain that it remained.

"Our best scientists are claiming that while the planet won't actually break apart, it may become virtually uninhabitable for decades, or perhaps even centuries," the former King informed them.