Converging Goals?

Zeph was relieved that nothing bad at least from what he could tell, or Alora and Lilly's health monitoring applicants could detect when he had the two of them check on the condition of Lilith and the other four who missed dinner and breakfast only to get at late lunch because of the fun he had at the resort hotel.

 But that was only one crisis averted and he could feel one or more looming just over the horizon. The task of protecting Candi from whatever was coming the best he could seemed more like an invisible sword hanging above his head than a rewarding task.

As always the time he had off-duty was never enough to explore too deeply into some of the dark corners where dangerous games were played by all. Zeph was left wondering how Brandon spent most of that time because he left the squad barracks for a few hours according to what Jessica told him.