Trial by Ordeal

by Philip R Benge

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  Later that day the old mystic was talking to General Ares Fortuna. “She has entered the portal as well, and when the alien Tyler Burrows turns up and finds out where his family is, he will enter the portal and kill her and then Marot Pallas, your hands will be clean of their blood. Tell me, have your agents reported back in from the moon?”

  “No, for some reason they don`t appear to have done so, I have dispatched my personal starship to the moon Galafrey to see if they have arrived there, for it may be simply a broken radio that is stopping them from communicating with us.”