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I had a hard time wrapping my head around that fact. Most Tai-Kok ships held a crew of four hundred. The Gorum must have been the size of a blimp when he finished gobbling them down.“Do the Gorum eat people too?”

“There is nothing the Gorum will not eat,”Commander Zan stated.

My eyes widened in horror.“Are you sure they’re on our side?”

“The Gorum King has a treaty with Zarek,”Trayon assured me.

Dad teleported into the war room.“Zarek wants Cuylen brought to his ship for interrogation.”

“Take him,”Sariel said.

Dad clamped a hand to his chest, picked Cuylen up and vanished.

“Chiara, I want you to scan each ship in the fleet for anything unusual,”Trayon ordered.

“Yes, Father Trayon.”

Trayon rubbed my back. “We will find Adam.”

“Alive?”

“I cannot promise you that.”Trayon’s gauntlet chimed. “I am needed on the bridge.”

“Go. I’ll help Chiara.”I watched Trayon zoomed away. Would I ever be that fast?

Three hours later, we were no closer to finding our traitor, but the ships had been scanned and given an all clear.

“The Gorum will be arriving shortly,”Trayon announced on our private link. “I want Chiara and you to meet them. Come to the bridge in ten minutes.”

“Are you sure that’s necessary?”I asked nervously.

“As my mate you will meet many dangerous lifeforms. You must learn how to deal with them.”

He had a point. They were allies. They couldn’t be worse than the Tai-Kok, could they?

Chapter Fifteen

A bright yellow glow popped into existence on the bridge. If it had appeared three feet to the left, it would have taken out navigations. The spinning light transformed into a rather large vortex. Had Trayon and the others lost their minds? It could destroy the ship!

I edged closer to Trayon. “Is it supposed to do that?”

“Yes.”

“It’s not going to suck us into some kind of weird black hole, is it?” I shielded my eyes as the light grew brighter and brighter.

“No.”There was a touch of amusement in Trayon’s voice.

“Glad you find me so entertaining.”

Trayon stroked the side of my face.“I love watching your reactions to new experiences.”

“Right. There’s never a dull moment with me around.”

“Exactly.”

Chiara wrapped around my neck. “Their mode of porting is much like mine.”

I nodded. But this twisting funnel of death was so much bigger.

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