Chapter 22: Playing Both Sides Part 1

Seventy-one and a half hours later, Kate emerged from the BSP and touched down on Ahmadeus soil.

A feeling of complete dread hung over her, covering her like a cold cloak of death. Looking around, an ominous sensation gripped her; overpowering, almost

Something had happened, something had changed.

Of course, it has, sweetheart. You, who possibly holds the balance of life and death of the human race.

But there was something else. Maybe this was the last journey she would make, as she was certain she was going to die.

But are you going to lie down and take it?

Since her experience on the alien ship, she had felt, different. Was it something they had done to her—to her mind? Something that the Divisions’ home base could not detect?

She despised the fact that she did not feel in control—at either end of the scale.

Pilcher seemed to consider her journey as an insane one-way suicide mission; her mind reading skill had come into play at that inopportune moment.