A PT-24 landed in front of the cluster of caves exactly seventy-eight minutes after the Beag-Liath ship had departed. The squad of Serefim Security troops swarmed out of the shuttlecraft and took up defensive positions, their weapons aimed in every direction. After a moment, they cautiously rose and began searching the area. They found nothing but tracks.
The Beag explosives had molecularized the three small Serefim ships some thousand metres overhead. Not a single shard had fallen back to earth. No trace of the ships remained except for the indentations left by their landing feet.
The soldiers studied the ground, taking photos of every footprint. The tracks told quite a story. At least fifteen Domhanians had been present as well as another bipedal species. A large ship had landed and la
