The Room Next Door

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.