CHAPTER 345

EARTH

RAPTOR 47

FLORIDA KEYS

Isra looked up from the data pad as Tareif settled to the webbed seating next to him.

"We will proceed to the next location." Tareif spoke louder than usual to be heard over the roar of the wind sweeping in through the open ramp. "The pilot says roughly thirty minutes to get there."

This was the second day of their scouting trip investigating the dozen blind sensor spots they had detected in this area. All of them were indeed land masses that had resurfaced due to earthquakes in the last hundred years, and all of them had huge mirrors that were now established and hiding them from orbit. None of the islands were inhabited, though many of them were much larger than they were once known to be. Tareif had discovered several maps of the area that were centuries old, and all of the islands they were discovering were at least double the size of the old maps and charts.