Chapter 5

They tempted with enticements and demanded with force few earthlings could resist. There were gates, he’d learned, through which access from distant times and places occurred. Even now, some sought to close and bar these portals, but that was not his task. Fortunately, he did not need such a device to go home, if ever he was called back, so he didn’t worry over them.

His current task involved learning the chemical composition and source of this new drug. The substance had fierce power. It often created fast addiction and sapped the will and intellect of those who used it more than a few times. The supply must be cut off before its use spread too far. Darzul had already ingested enough to process through his system and extract the formula. His metabolism seemed to be immune to it. In reality, few Arzulans reacted to any substance not of their home world.