"Then that's why Holdreth Khain burned himself!" Ned expostulated.
"Sure. He knew where those guard beams were. He burned himself so that we couldn't move him. That forced us to bring Jedon Onomondo to him."
Ned put his hand on the invisible wall. "We had to let them go through with it, just to see what happened. When they hit these walls, they were exactly ten feet apart."
I looked at the fallen Damakoi. "At that distance," I said, "the two spheres put out just enough radiation to kill the Damakoi without hurting us. I'm afraid they don't have much time left."
THE END