“I don’t get your point, Elder Senka?” Declan said, coming back to the table with two heaping plates. His arms trembled minutely from the weight, almost an invisible weakness, but the predators in the room picked up on it instantly.

“She is pointing out how valuable a target you are. To Fairie, you have elemental magic and the Middle Realm. To anyone on Earth, you have all kinds of magical knowledge and power, and the genetics to possibly pass both on. You were instrumental in building the only truly quantum computer on the planet, and now, it appears, you have a really valuable understanding of Vorsook-based tech and weapons,” Stacia said. “The target on your back is even bigger.”

“Only the individuals in this room are aware of Father’s Vorsook knowledge. Weapons power is now at thirty-one percent. Vibrations in the surrounding rock and debris indicate outside forces have begun excavation. I surmise beasts of burden have been brought in to move material.”

“Are you thinking grav weapons?” Declan asked, after a sideways glance at his wolf.

“Exactly, Father. I am considering a radius of three meters.”

“Well, you know best,” the witch said, picking up his fork, then noticing the attention of the others. He realized immediately that they hadn’t followed the exchange.

“So one of his biggest weapons is the same system that propels his drones and allows them to hover in place,” Declan said, holding up one hand, palm open and waiting. He never looked around, but one of the small drone units obligingly floated over and landed in his open hand.

“The Vorsook have long ago mastered the creation and containment of antimatter. Earth physicists have recently surmised that antimatter might respond to gravity in an opposite manner to regular matter.”

“It would float up rather than getting pulled down,” Tanya said.

“Yup. And they were right. So the machinery that gives this drone flight and hover potential—call them engines for lack of a better word—can influence gravity in a small area around itself. Which, by the way, we kind of wonder if that’s what Cora does too,” Declan said, looking at Chris and Tanya at the last part. “And maybe Wulf too. We need to observe them using their abilities with a couple of these units around so Omega can measure for antimatter activity before we’ll know.”

“You’re saying my babies can create antimatter?” Tanya asked.

“It’s just a possibility. Cora’s could be telekinesis too, but it almost acts like the anti-gravitational affect that Omega gets in his drones,” Declan said with a shrug. Tanya frowned. “Anyway, maybe the wrong time to bring up that hypothetical theory, but back to the drones.”