Chapter Five
Both Lindsay and Jace were staring at me as if I’d suddenly lost my mind. Maybe I had. But now that I’d thought of it, the solution seemed clear enough. We couldn’t expect Lindsay to come up with a solution to our problem. Even if she’d been a graduate student in physics rather than engineering, having her attempt to ferret out the workings of such an arcane device would be like asking me rebuild the solid fuel boosters on a rocket just because I’d helped my father once unclog the fuel-injection system on the car he’d owned before he bought the Cherokee.
At last Jace spoke. “Beloved, such a scheme couldn’t possibly work. While I agree that the man who invented this device is the best person to modify it, there is no way we could safely return to Los Alamos, let alone manage
