Normally Dr. Martin would force the general to meet in his office; he preferred keeping things on his terms as much as possible, and the general was a little too territorial inside his own space. With the discoveries they had just made, though, he didn’t want to push any of his buttons at the moment.…

“I think he’s coming around,” Amanda said. Laying her hand on his forehead, she anxiously waited to see what he came back with this time.As his eyes slowly opened, Gabriel felt surrounded by a bright cottony gauze. When he became acclimated to the light, he could see that he was still in the lab, Amanda…

Gabriel lay on the corrugated table, straps encircling his ankles, wrists, chest, and neck, his entire body immobilized. His eyes were open but vacant, the level of his consciousness monitored and maintained by the array of wires and tubes attached to him. A young woman with satiny shoulder-length honey blonde hair stood next to him,…

Pacing around the room, arms crossed below his chest, the man struggles to hear everything going on in the tightly packed room around him. The long table that is the centerpiece to the room is surrounded by more than a dozen men, some talking to each other, more than one trying to talk to everyone…