ORINA ZON

Orina is the Confederacy’s circuit physician who travels to Erus Colony on a regular basis to tend to the infirmed at the facility. Devoted to medicine, Zon hates the inhumane Colony because of what it stands for—mankind’s cruelty to its own kind—and hers.

Orina Zon is a Pyresian, a race that has been subjugated by the Confederacy for a generation. Her assignment to Colony is more of an indentured servitude than an assignment.  Pyresians are not given a choice of occupations in the Confederacy.

Orina looks fairly normal, by human standards. However, the Pyresians are a nocturnal species with enlarged pupils and an extra sensory organ (located on each temple) that senses vibrations. (Both used by her species to navigate thru the perpetual darkness of her homeworld.) Her demeanor is pleasant, with a natural bedside manner. Although versed in science, she moves as gracefully as like a woman schooled in dance.

Orina wears stylish, tinted goggles to function comfortably in the light.

As the story progresses, Landus and Zon will be thrown together, first as allies—then as lovers. This is a union (interspecies breeding) that is strictly forbidden by Confederate law—punishable by death.

Orina Zon was pivotal player in smuggling information in and out of the prison for Landus.

Orina and Governor Mason have a curious bond—their love of music.

One fateful day, Mason overhears Orina singing, with the voice of an angel, in the prison medical bay. When he admits that he knows the Pyresian tune she was singing, an amiable bond forms between the two.  Although the relations between humans and Pyresians are strained at best, the two find mutual ground for agreement thru the Pyresian arts.  Although he is still the enemy, Orina begins to look beyond the uniform to see more of the tortured soul inside.

Orina also carries with her a terrible secret that she believes could forever alter her relationship with Landus; Orina’s father betrayed the Pyresian race to the Confederacy in order to gain power for himself as its regional governor. She is the daughter of a race traitor—something that she has a great deal of trouble reconciling within herself.