Alendar turned back to the caverns and sprinted as fast as he could across the ice fields. He was running straight into the enemy invasion force, but he knew it would be impossible to hide outside on the plains of ice.

“Maybe the complex tunnel system could conceal me,” he thought.

In addition, somewhere in those tunnels was a double chance to survive. The doubling of odds that were next to zero were still next to zero, but it was a better chance than the one that he had now.

The Krylan shook his left wrist and a translucent blue energy shield flashed out. Reaching behind his back with his right hand, he popped open a secret compartment in his suit’s power cell, and withdrew a pistol. Alendar was ready for a fight.

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