Greed. Power. Cruelty. These have been the watchwords by which Chatcaava of lesser means have been ruled for generations, and even the most valuable among them, the Slave Queen, has lived the whole of her life beneath their yoke. Only one male in all the Empire is beyond those depredations......or was.The Exalted Emperor of the Chatcaavan Empire was willing to be changed by the lessons he learned from the mouth-and hands-of an alien, but that...