"What are you doing here?" he asked involuntarily.
"I am wanted too," she said. "Hurry, Commodore Loong is waiting for us."
The cavern hummed with swift, orderly activity. Larhana led him quickly through it, but Savage had time to note the fighting ships being readied and the blasters and heat guns being uncrated and loaded. Finally they entered a small room where Loong, alone, awaited them.
"Quite a place you have here," Savage said.
"We've been preparing for a long time," replied Loong, "and now we are going to make use of it."
"How, Prince Kalnor?" asked Savage quietly. His hand was on the needle gun in his pocket.
"The High Commissioner has.... What did you say?"
"Prince Kalnor, your Majesty."
"How did you know that?" Loong asked. He clutched at his blaster. But Savage brought out the needle gun and he stopped the movement.
"It was evident from the beginning that you were not working with either the High Commissioner or the Emperor, but at the same time it was evident that you were highly placed in a third organization. Then you yourself mentioned the Kalnor family and I went to the State Library.