Arlene and JeffChapter 290
Deep within the hidden base, General Whitworth, Colonel Matthews and Lieutenant Mayfield stood looking through a big floor-to-ceiling window at the portal and its assorted support equipment thirty feet below and some forty feet farther along the chamber that was hewn from living rock. The three main consoles that controlled the portal were manned, and the hum of power and the acrid smell of ozone were predominant because the portal had just flung a team of scientists halfway across the galaxy...