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make himself not gape at the thing. It was familiar
looking, but Tiera had explained about the clones, and how they could
seem like anyone, including people he knew. They might have Cordes inside them,
or possibly Gray, which would mean he might be able to tell, if he could read
them closely enough. He also might not. It wasn't something that he'd had a lot
of time to practice.
    Hopefully
this time it would just be a visit from Blue or one of her clones, who
except for the dead one, Cordes Blue, were just themselves. His Aunt Cynthia
and her kids. The craft seemed right for it, but wasn't one he recognized. It
was enough to get him to hold his breath a bit, in fear.
    Luckily
Petra had closed the outer door of the big craft, which was silver on the
outside, and shaped like a rectangle at the moment, since that was the way he'd
left it. The space inside was big and open, since Tim had been using it last to
haul lumber for his brother in-law, Tovey. It meant both that everyone fit
inside easily, since there were only about twenty of them, and that he could
see them all when he turned, just before the thing in front of them opened
fire.
    "So,
no, probably not the Blue's come to visit." He muttered, holding
the craft in place. That part wasn't hard, since the weapons that hit it were
based on energy, he thought. Light beams of some kind, by the look of the twin
beams. They didn't do anything to his craft, which was basically a shield built
in a way that it could be seen. Tor had come up with the original idea, but Timon had designed and made the craft. It held, easily. That was good, since he
doubted that anyone but Petra had a shield on them here.
    "I
don't have any weapons on this. Should we ram them?" He was joking of
course, since doing that would probably send debris into the school dorms
behind them. That or they'd trash one of the other buildings.
    That
being the case he sighed, trying to act relaxed, and like he did things like
this all the time.
    "Have
a seat everyone, we need to draw them away from the area."
    From
behind him there was a grunt, and when he turned again Petra, or at least
someone, had seats appearing. Since her hand was on the wall of the craft, he
figured it was her. She was good with magic, having been around a lot more than
most people over the last few years. Having the friends that she did made that
almost natural, really. She saw him looking and nodded.
    "Do
it. Take us out over the ocean, but don't lose them. I want to see who they
are."
    There
was noise from the others, a lot of it scared sounding, but in that gruff,
fighters way. It was hard to explain, but almost impossible to miss, once you
heard it. A kind of dark muttering that sounded like threats, but if you
listened to the words you understood that it was mainly about planning, or an
attempt to work out what was going on, rather than anything else. It actually sounded
pretty hard and warrior like, for all that there was really an undertone to it
that spoke of terror. Tim felt that too. It wasn't as strong for him, he didn't
think, but it was there anyway.
    He could
be wrong on that one though. Maybe he felt what the rest of them did?
    A moment
later he took the craft up, moving slowly, so that the other craft would be
drawn along, if their goal was to do anything other than attack them. Or, more
likely, him . Unless Petra or Mindy had made enemies with some Ancients
while he wasn't looking? It was, he knew, just possible that Pet might have,
though it wasn't likely. Mindy... Well, other than him, odds were the girl had
never met another Immortal at all. The same was probably true for the others,
but there was always the odd chance that this ship was after one of them.
    Or just
sent to attack for no real reason. He hoped it wasn't that one, because it
would mean a real attack was taking place, and likely be happening in more than
one location. Timon winced, but didn't say all of that out loud, since it was
probably the most likely scenario