Deceiver was waiting for them when they came running in. He watched as the team members took their chairs, his expression set in that calm but worried way he had whenever the news wasn’t good.
Corona felt a nudge at her elbow. Glancing up, Condemner gave her a wink and nodded in the direction of the other side of the table. She followed his silent request in time to see StarLight taking her place in her chair. There was no way the woman could mask the extra glow in her cheeks or brightness in her eyes, especially when she cast a furtive glance and a smile at her husband sitting a few chairs away.
“All right, people. We have a situation on Pellindora. To give you a quick recap, the Pellindores are underground dwellers. Very intelligent and communicative quadrupeds. But they live on a pl
