Still, I found myself praying that when this was all over, the people who’d brokered this unholy deal would get what was coming to them.
Since we didn’t have much more ground to cover, Lance and my father left soon after that. I’d decided not to mention what had happened the night before with Lir Shalan. It would only make my father worry that much more, and there wasn’t anything he could do to help. I did contemplate whether I should say something to my mother, just because she’d had some luck in getting rid of the aliens years before. Unfortunately, even though she’d been the one to accomplish that seemingly impossible task, she still couldn’t say how she’d managed it. According to her, the power had been fueled by her rage at my father’s death, and had blasted out of her without her re
