Chapter 2Ten minutes later, a shirt andregularpants had replaced my pajama togs. I had washed my face and Astridput on some coffee as the equivalent of orange juice. I sipped thecoffee as I sat down before the screen again.
“So, do we have a hint about who orwhat hit the Terlor System?”
“We have a little more than a hint.Just beyond the system there is a sphere five hundred-mile big.Maybea hundred miles thick. It looks like a long, solid rock. We suspectit may be connected with the destruction.”
“A rock? Since when has a rockattacked someone?”
“This is more than just a rock. Wedon’t believe it is from our galaxy. It is made of a substance thatwe can’t define. It doesn’t show up on any of our scanners,”Belen said.
“Really? Never heard of anything likethat before.”
“We have scopes in t
