Luana and another agent were quickly gone, much to everyone else’s apparent relief, taking the white cube and the mysterious, antiquated computer tapes back to the Bureau for analysis—but that left five Bureau agents still on site—Nancy Dane, Humphrey May, two paramedics, and one dour security type who slouched around muttering orders to a bevy of annoying implike winged creatures with red eyes and tiny barbed whipping tails.Isabella was not in evidence. Larry had whisked Beltran away to a safe place somewhere, and then seemed to have vanished himself. Zoë, after reassuring herself that Thea was all right, appeared to have taken herself elsewhere, too. The professor and the twins’ uncle Kevin, the head of the FBM, were still out on their errand to the Alphiri, and apparently incommunicado.That left Thea, Terry, and Tess pretty much to their own devices, and the three of them spent a couple of hours catching up in Terry’s room until Thea finally growled something and flipped open her laptop.“What are you doing?”
