Chapter Seven – Carrie Takes a Chance
“I STILL THINK WE SHOULD stop and test the translators,” said Dave. “If we get separated and we can’t communicate, we’ll never find each other again. And I’ve got the gateway-opening equipment. We have to stay together or you won’t be able to go back to our time.”
They were scrambling through a narrow tunnel that wound through the mountain’s interior, on the trail of the silver object Carrie had seen. Their head torches illuminated the sandy, rock walls.
“Mind your head.” She stooped under a rock that stuck out of the ceiling. As Dave followed he did the same. “And stop fussing. Of course the translators work. Do you really think that an organisation with the technology and the expertise of the Transgalactic Council would give us broken translators?
