Chapter 16

Jamison woke his implant. Nessa squinted at the screen, then shook her head. The resolution prohibited getting a closer look at what was on his implant, and it was only with the holospace translator that she understood speech.

"Alright, Area 51," Jamison muttered. "Why on Earth do you have an unsecured teleport link?"

He stepped between the metal disk on the ceiling and the metal disk on the floor. A tractor beam flooded the immediate area with light, and it swallowed Jamison from the holo-feed.

A chill coursed Nessa's body. She shivered.

Then a yellow light broke through the ceiling until a tiny figure took its place.

Jamison? Nessa wondered.

"Whoa! You're the alien?"

Nessa raised her eyebrows, and she pounded her implant on. She sped through the home screen, stopping at the icon of two creatures in dialog.