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 the dream, part of her had felt like she was walking some ancient site. This was a fairly common dream for her, because she was an archaeologist, but she hadn’t stayed in the dream long enough to figure it out where she was. After being jolted awake from that somewhat pleasant dream of exploring an ancient site had come other dreams—dreams of freaking number

