They were still several million klicks away from the invading spaceship, and still out of range for their communication devices when the 'Michael' was... jarred by something they could not identify.A moment later, a voice from 'Susan' came over the communicator. "'Michael', you were just hit by a laser beam. You had better start evasive action and prepare to fight." Thank you, 'Susan'. You had better start the same evasion. Break away from 'Michael' and make your own attack runs. This is obviously. But it wasn’t that charlatan, was it?” He grinned. “It was you, Herr Von Sebottendorf.”The black figure was sitting with perfect stillness. But the malevolence that had oozed from it since the beginning of the conversation had ratcheted up to crackling fury. It was a glare – eyeless and shapeless as it was – that promised snapping bones and marrow sucked through eyesockets. Sharpe spread his hands with a slow smile.“Our kind don’t survive long if we don’t know who we’re dealing with.”Von. Drew looked at his friends and smiled at them 'Where the hell have you guys been? We were going to start without you!'To be honest Drew was just very glad that they had come. They were both new-timers and Drew was scared they'd ditch out; He knew how his friends thought, so he knew that being walked out on was a possibility. Rick never gave a damn about anything except eating healthy and having a nice body so taking weed, having sex, drinking booze and doing drugs were never high on his list. Almost 50 female bodies and Samuel as his 49th male one, who hadbeen, in 1959 a pool boy in the employ of Ruth Salt, a millionairess whowilled all her money to the lad and then died. The lad was now the homeof Dovus's soul as had been the body of Ruth before that. He had already signed over all his worldly possesses to his wife Donnawho he watched as she wrapped herself in the Cloak of Fates. It wasstill five days before the full moon but there was never any time towaste was there?And then the.