1In the palace of Queen Nyomi, leader of the Alien Guardians of Earth… Sugar thought of herself as a laid back kind of person—the kind who went with the flow instead of fighting it. The result was a less stressful life which let her sleep better. Normally. Tonight, action dreams where she was fighting had kept her tossing and turning for hours. On top of that, she’d had weirdly vivid dreams of rock walls and stone terraces. During it, part of her had felt like she was walking in the ruins of some ancient city. This was a fairly common dream for her because she was an archaeologist, but usually she knew where she was. Tonight she hadn’t stayed in the dream long enough. After being jolted awake several times had come other dreams. Dreams of freaking numbers. Precise dreams of 13.1631 de

