Assisting the cavalry is not something Kryllyan and Sentra like to do, but when Major Sharman of the Rikirin cavalry asks Sentra to disrupt the operation of a cavalry experiment, the stakes are too high to refuse.
Deep beneath the surface of a planet that has just passed the threshold for Allied membership, an elite group of cavalry physicists are in the final stages of a project with devastating potential.
The device the cavalry are constructing could be a magnificent advance, offering energy in abundance, or a deadly disaster. Gaining access to it requires a trade that could cost a friendship, and disabling it demands a price Kryllyan will not pay.
For Kryllyan, it is not the technology but his own actions and the decisions he makes which open the door to a place few would want to go.