Sabal’s private office was a relief. Ranglen didn’t wait. “I’ve explained everything to Mylia, and Riley knows too—how you and I got here, what I suspect is in the mound and what we intend to do with it. Mylia and I will go for the Clip. Just the two of us. I can find it, and then we’ll bring it back and use your method to destroy it. I assume that method is to use my teleportation Clip to send it off to a sun and not another planet. Correct?” Sabal looked impressed. “Very good, Mykol. Yes, I sent it to a star, not a world. I noticed the star-chart seemed to allow for that.” “And you believe you destroyed it?” “I couldn’t follow it in order to find out, but I’m sure that’s why the Airafane made the distinction on the chart in the first place.” “All right. Then we’ll do the same with t

