CHAPTER VI“Five hundred thousand miles out from Earth,” Laura said, two weeks later.
“I still don’t get it,” Alan admitted. “They didn’t even try to follow us. It’s as if Keifer suddenly didn’t care whether we escaped to Earth or not.”
“Maybe he believes we’re going to have our hands full trying to get Earth to repair the space-warp. Maybe he knows we won’t be able to bother him or interfere with his plans.”
But Alan shook his head, his brow creasing into a frown. “No that’s not it. I just can’t figure it.” He walked to the fore viewport and gazed at the legions of stars against the black velvet immensity of space. In the upper right hand corner of the viewport he could see the Earth-moon system, the larger sphere pale green, mottled with white and brown, the smaller a dazzling white. H
