Location: Imaia Code Name: Blackout Time: 01:00 hours International Time “Why is she not waking up?” I asked Nathan and the nurse looked down, to the place where Max had been sleeping for two hours without even moving. He moved then, kneeling at the side of my wife and touching her forehead. My whole body tensed and my hands fisted in anger. Nathan looked nervously between my fists and my wife knowing at an instinctual level that I would have killed him for touching her like that on any other day. “Easy,” whispered Judge to me, patting one of my shoulders, “Easy now, Major.” None of my men had left me. The moment we had landed at Imaia I’d been frisked about the situation in the medical unit and had run all the way to Max. My soldiers had closed flanks, isolating the area from all th

