He had the gift of The Sight and our friendship stretched back far enough for me to trust him implicitly. And more than that, he was my Nebula Ally. If he was here now, it was for a reason. And I wondered if our circle of four was about to become five. We’d met years ago when a bunch of students from his school had done an exchange with a group from Zodiac. It had coincided with a Pitball match between our academies too, and we’d bonded after I’d given hell to a couple of guys he didn’t get along with.
