Chapter Ten
Betrayal
“Where do you think that we should rest over, Colonel?” Ray Connors asked.
“I thought that we could use the computer that Strauss left with us and contact Jonas with it, he may know of somewhere up ahead where we can rest up in safety.”
“Yes of course we should give that a try, and maybe sooner rather than later, for if we do find that the roads are full of road blocks checking the paperwork of weary travellers, we may need his help in getting through them.”
So while Lieutenant Charles Bragg drove them ever nearer to the capital of Lyre and the space port, Colonel Michaels sent a message speeding through the internet system of Lyre, hoping that Earth hadn`t already destroyed all of the satellites around the planet, as before, he was asking Jonas for even more of his help.
“Why did you come on this mission without an escape plan to get you out?” Peter Summers asked, worried now that his young sister could fall into the hands of the Lyren authorities.
“To travel around this awful planet you need travel documents dated for the days when you are actually travelling, we had no idea just how long it would take us to get you out of prison, and we couldn`t hang around once we had got hold of you for obvious reasons. My thoughts all along were to call on the help of the freedom movement, if necessary, but until today we didn`t know that we might also have to worry about military road blocks.” Colonel Michaels explained. “We had hoped that the sheer speed of our escape would take us far enough away from the prison to ensure our safety.”
Peter Summers thought about this for a moment before quietly accepting it.
“And it still may Peter, it is only your supposition that we may be forced to get by some military road blocks, and that was based solely on one military convoy.” Ray Connors put in.