CHAPTER 267

EARTH

SPARTA

Dysea looked at Helen's peaceful face through the glass of the medical room. Aihola had ordered her moved to a single floor of the hospital in Sparta and now that entire floor was filled with armed and angry looking Spartan Centurions. The grounds of the hospital were patrolled by no less than a full Mora at all times and Walter and Panos had locked down the city so tightly that even a dog could not get through the security grid.

They had made it to Earth three days before planned, the captain of the NOVA-Class Attack Cruiser that was their flagship and their twelve ship escort, pushing his ships and crews faster and harder than he had ever pushed them before. They had burned out their LSDs right after exiting the newly built Jump Gate in Earth's sector, and were currently having those cores replaced in orbit above.