JAS WAS TRAPPED. SITTING across from Haggardy in the mission room, next to MacAdam, she might as well have been as tied up as Lingiari. Haggardy not only had the pilot as hostage, but he could also command the defense units, and that meant he could do just about whatever he wanted. Maybe he already knew he didn’t need Lingiari, and he was just having fun. Or maybe he knew that if it weren’t for the fact that he might harm the pilot, she would be far more reckless about risking her life to go against him.
“So, Harrington, what’s your assessment? You say there’s a starship beneath the structure you visited, and that it’s of alien make. Is it native to the planet?”
“I don’t know. You tell me. Did you see anything like upturned bags when you supposedly managed to escape the alien infection t
