CHAPTER 83

MOON BASE EDEN

 The Alliance Ministers sat in the small living room of the quarters they had been assigned and waited for Marcus to finish sweeping the room. He held the small device with a blinking green light on it, and he swept it over the last portion of the room he had yet to check. He turned back to Deval.

 "The room is clear." He said. "We may speak freely."

 Deval nodded and settled onto the plush couch. "Excellent." He said. "We can finally relax. I've been bored with Graham since the third hour in his company. The man is an idiot with no sense of reality."

 Marcus stood to one side of the couch, his arms folded across his chest as the Ministers all sat down with drinks in their hands.