CHAPTER SEVENValona awoke believing that Apollo was calling for her.
For a moment she thought she was back in the battleship and then as she opened her eyes, she remembered that she was in a bedroom in the Palace.
She was married!
The bright moonlight was streaming into the room through the sides of the curtains and she realised that it was still the middle of the night.
She wondered what had woken her.
Then suddenly she heard a movement in the room next door.
It was very faint and yet for some unknown reason it made her afraid.
Almost as if someone was telling her, she became acutely aware that there was danger.
Fear began to streak through her body and then she paused and thought that she must be mistaken.
At the same time she felt that she must find out if anything untoward was
