Chris stood beside him, looking as if it were a bitter pill for her, too. She’d risked herself in the hands of the enemy, had cooperated with him in everything she’d been taught to oppose, and had worked like a dog. Now the Lobbies seemed to forget her as a useless tool. They were falling back on a raw power play and forgetting any earlier schemes.
“Maybe they’d hold off for a while if I agreed to go to them and share all my ideas, specimens and notes,” he said at last. “Do you think your Lobby would settle for that, Chris?”
“I don’t know, Dan. I’ve stopped thinking their way.” She seemed almost apologetic for the admission.
He dropped an arm over her shoulder and turned with her back to the laboratory. “Okay, then we’ve got to find a miracle. We’ve got two days ahead of us. At least we
