It was some hours later that the Ardvoon got back to them.
"It would seem that your reason for being here is now voided," the speaker said. "The information that the fourth-order beings were carrying, the information that could harm your people, has somehow become useless."
Charlie and Kippy exchanged surprised glances. How did the Ardvoon know? And, did that also mean that the chelpee knew their valuable data had been corrupted now, too?
"Fancy that," Charlie responded calmly. "I