CHAPTER 392876 Fourth Moon, Tretan Shuttle
Pilot had joined them in the main cabin. Muriel stood beside him, trying to understand the hologram that was projected in front of the desolate view outside.
It was a machine, a device of some sort. She understood that much. It just didn't mean more than that to her. It was a box rendered in glowing pale blue.
Dyami peered over her shoulder, while Hannah and Clay watched from beside her.
She pointed at the device. “That's what brought us back in time?”
“It is the core component,” Pilot said. “It was integrated into the STC drive controls.”
“Someone put it there? Secretly?”
“Yes.” Pilot gestured and the view pulled back.
The device shrunk, and bright lines led from it to a larger device, and all of it was contained within the tight spaces a
