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More from Onyx Sun, (which really will be finished some day) picking up from last week.
Ni drew a deep breath, staring at the chamber.
“He is a Ferelian. They…” Ni frowned. “They are not native to the planet we were on. They are from Ferelis Three and they are… They are a primitive people, they do not have space travel.”
“Then he did not get there by himself.” She frowned. “Isn’t Ferelis a proscribed system?”
“Very,” Ayess said. “The penalty for going there is death.”
Ayess’ race does not have words for he/she/his/hers, etc, because they are (for lack of a better term) hermaphroditic. Their pronouns to refer to other members of their race are “ni” (for he/she/him/her), “ni-es” (his/hers), “ni-en” (they/them) and “ni-en-es” for theirs.
Novel Notes 
I am enjoying the the … er … alien-ness of your aliens :)
How did he get there indeed. It’ll be interesting to find out.
So someone purposefully went to a forbidden world to get this creature to… sabotage? That might be a leap, but it’s where my mind is going first.
Interesting…you’re drawing me more and more into this universe you’re sharing snippets of information about it, bit by bit.
Ferelis sounds like a planet I don’t want to visit!
Or rather, system.
This getting really interesting.
Things get even more intriguing. I wonder what they are going to do with the ferelian.
Uh-oh. Are they planning to go there?
So how did the alien get onto their ship? And why the death penalty? Did I mention I’m loving this?
Interesting. So how did he get there?