Chapter 43

Mark took a swallow. “You’re right, it is.”

Juraens turned to Tarin and said, “The Sky Shield worked.”

“It would have worked better had we not had a traitor planet side.”

“No one expected Hilnut to be a traitor. He’d been with Zaron and Bron for years.”

“Bron searched his room this dawntine. He found an old pamphlet advocating the cloning solution instead of the Earthen fems. He must have felt betrayed by his leaders when the fem became pregnant right away and proved to have off-the-chart psy. His comm unit contained rants about Warriors being traitors to real Sarran fem.”

“Sounds like Stoker at work to me.” Mark cut of piece of meat.

“I would say that Stoker recruited him, but who was his handler after Stoker was executed?” Juraens asked. “That’s the question of the hour.”