Chapter Twenty
When the world resolved itself around me again, I saw that my surroundings were familiar enough — a room lit by dim reddish fixtures, walls of perfectly planed stone. I blinked, trying to shrug off the last of that creepy-crawly sensation on my skin. Then I realized that, although this had to be the alien base out in Secret Canyon, I’d actually never seen this chamber before.
It was very large and echoing, with a sort of raised dais at one end. On that dais were two large metal chairs, and on those chairs sat Gideon and Lir Shalan.
I stared. When he’d left me at the cottage, Gideon had been wearing jeans and one of the T-shirts I’d bought him. Now, though, he was back in the high-collared flowing robes the Reptilians preferred. What that meant, I didn’t know for sure. I o
