Kristin Kristin “All done?” Rachel asked, coming into the room designated as the new forensic lab. It was down the hall from Rachel’s space in the medical section of Base 3. Kiel and a few others worked with me daily to study evidence collected from the underground fortress. Almost every day, we returned there and mapped the labyrinth of tunnels. We found more evidence of the Hive every trip. Worse, we knew they weren’t gone. We hadn’t won. They’d just moved on. Every Base on The Colony had been alerted to the problem and Prime Nial had designated additional battleships to patrol the space between The Colony and Hive controlled space. Everyone’s goal was to find Krael, to bring him to justice before he devised any new evil plans. It had been a full month since I’d arrived, since the wa

