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second,” ventured one of the other
high council members standing beside Evander. “This flat’s gotta
have a security surveillance, right?”
     
    Evander hadn’t thought of that. A flame of
hope kindled within him. “It should!” He nodded, turning to the
police officers. “Check the security recording.”
     
    They walked over to the large desk at the
centre of the hall. As they tapped a button on the table, a
holographic screen rose over the air above it. They made it replay
the events of the past few hours slowly, from the beginning … and
when it reached the end and had finished showing everything, a
speechless, ringing silence was left in the room.
     
     
    Evander found it slightly difficult to find
his voice again, and break the stunned silence.
     
    “It was him…” he said in a whisper, looking
around the room at the other two high council members and the
policemen. “It was the one who had blown up the cruiser, and
attacked the Mech laboratory!”
     
    The police officers had no knowledge of
this, but the video of the gruesome eyeless creature kidnapping
Derigor was enough to stun them senseless.
     
    The video had showed the pale faced, eyeless
man slipping into the room hours back, and waiting … And when
Derigor had arrived, the madman had knocked him out, taken his body
and had coolly walked off.
     
    Evander fought back the choking sensation
slowly building within him. This can’t be!
     
    Feeling everything spin around him, He
reached for a chair nearby and sunk to it.
     
    As the speechless silence descended over the
room again, a voice of one of the police officers, suddenly alive
with excitement, called:
     
    “Master Evander, there’s something amazing
we’ve got here!”
     
    Evander, along with everyone else in the
room, turned to look at the officer at the far end of the room. He
was stooped over something on the floor that he was blocking from
view. Turning around with a beaming smile, he announced: “Whoever
that lunatic was, he sure is going to regret coming here and
attacking Derigor.”
     
    Feeling a spark of curious thrill, Evander
rose and walked towards the man, as did the rest of the people in
the room.
     
    “Why’s that?” asked one of them.
     
    The man scooped up whatever he had been bent
over, and waved it before them.
     
    It was a z-com.
     
    “He left his z-com!” exclaimed the man,
getting to his feet. “The mystic probably dropped it on his way!
Now, through this z-com, we can-”
     
    “Know all his contacts and get far more
details through it!” finished Evander, whose panic had been
instantly replaced by delight and excitement.
     
    The man hurried forward and handed the
mystic’s z-com to Evander. Feeling all else erased from sight,
Evander pressed a button on the z-com. A holo screen leaped out
over the air above it.
     
    Evander frowned, reading the words displayed
on the screen … The holographic screen hovering over the mystic’s
z-com had the words:
     
    ‘GENTLEMEN, THIS IS HOW HOT IT GETS IN
HELL.’
     
    The rest of the crowd gathered behind him
had fallen to a puzzled silence.
     
    “What does that -”
     
    Before the policeman could finish the
sentence, the bomb that Zardin had implanted in this room went off
… the entire structure was ripped apart by a bellowing blast of
orange. The fire raced outwards, tearing through the walls, floor,
ceiling, frying everything in its way … And the entire place was
left in flaming smithereens.

 
     
5
     
     
     
    The Nyon Temple, Farnor
     
    Mantra had been sitting here, staring out
the window in front, for an hour or more now. For the first time in
so long, he was unable to get a grasp over himself, to find
composure in the speedy thoughtflow running through him.

    The room door opened behind him, and two
pairs of feet could be heard striding in.
     
    “We’ve just heard from them,” said Galinor,
standing behind him. “From Qyro, Vestra and Ion. both their
cruisers had reached their