THE SHIP WAS FALLING. Things were going badly wrong. It was ever thus on the physical plain. The same problem plagued them once they left the void. Now that they were inhabiting individual bodies, they could no longer meld and flow into and through each other, and they began to differ.
The alien had not been identified by the humans, and it needed to remain hidden. Soon, it might be the only one of its kind left aboard the starship. The one who had replaced the commander of the space vessel had failed. It had made errors of judgment, underestimating the resourcefulness of the humans called Harrington, Lingiari, and Lee, and allowing them to take control of the equipment items used for attack and defense. It was also due to the failed one’s incompetency that the humans had destroyed the sh
