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A while later, Lorcan and Roy awoke, finding Ciaran already up, sitting on top of a small rock and watching over them, a gun in his hand. “Wake your women,” he said. “We need to go.”
“Out there?” Lorcan pointed at the desert.
Ciaran shook his head. “Too risky. It was bad enough to not know where we were on the island. There’s no point charging into that unknown dimension. We’re going to have to fight our way back inside the Raven house. It’s been quiet in there for a while.” Lorcan nodded and turned to wake Orla.
“Can you open a portal to the Daimon Gate or the transitional zone right here?” Roy asked.
“No. Someone with galactic connections called our bluff and killed Ganzorig. I’d be reluctant to open a portal now and risk being located by unfriendly forces.”
Orla and Mori were u
