Veil One

Loch Lorian frontline

“Retrieve!” shouted Ellis Warnock, struggling to be heard over the thunderstorm.

It was a paradox. She was feeble and yet charged with a magnetic energy that pulled her towards the giant flash of light.

“What are they up to?” asked Kit Mannon over the radio.

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“I dare say a giant wormhole, sir?” shouted Ellis.

“Concentrate only on the Primul cypher. Only the Primul cypher!” said Kit.

“Only Primul cypher now!” shouted Ellis above the chaos.

“Primul cypher! Shields, now!” Kit blasted over the radio.

Waves of Archs shouted the command.

“More cyphers, we need more!” said Darcy.

“More!” shouted Ellis, overcome by vertigo as her hair lifted in her arms and the back of her neck. Dizzy, she continued alerting the Archs. But Archs were being drawn to the large light.

“Don’t stop the cyphers!” she shouted.

Thunder reverberated across the stormy sky drowning their commands.

They were too late to stop the wormhole. It vacuumed hundreds of Archs into its vortex.