The wall of the ship fluoresced. The blue-green Earth could be seen rolling in the cosmos. But there across its face was an ugly grey organism that looked like an amoeba. It was pulsing, stuck to the Earth's face like an enormous piece of living chewing gum.
‘Aleya, what the hell is that?’ shouted Hevel.
‘There isn't time to tell you right now. I'm not even sure I know. The trace for that mind-entity leads right to the centre of that thing. Can you see the storm in the middle of it? It just sprung up from nowhere. I think the grey field thing is generating it. I can't sense a present location for that mind-entity either. Whatever's happening down there that mind entity is key, I just know it. The storm centres over the disguised ship we found.’
‘This is seriously weird Aleya. Someone else must be after it. That’s sure is no natural storm. What do we do?’
‘If we use every last bit of power we might just be able to fire up the hidden space-ship - and the Urnie even.’
‘What’ll that do?’
‘I don’t know. But it’s worth a try. There's nothing else doing.’
‘Energise,’ said Hevel and Aleya in perfect unison.
A great beam of blue light emerged from Hevel’s ship and entered the top of Danny’s home.