“Are you going to read this entry then, or am I?” Kire asked about the entry Charlie had finally discovered that mentioned stuff about a portal. “It’s my turn to read,” she argued with him. my “But I don’t want to wait for you to tell me what it says!” he complained. “Funny! Then you’ll know exactly how it feels when you’re having your top-secret little conversations with Halo while the rest of us have to stand around and wait for you to translate it for us!” Just then, a shadow loomed over them on the other side of the table. They lifted their heads slowly simultaneously and found themselves facing a tall, skinny man with a handlebar mustache and round spectacles. He was looking down at the two of them over the rim of the glasses, which were sitting down low on the bridge of his narro

