Keith watched the forest warily. "We hit the lake out there, had to
swim in."
"So now what?" Van Ness wanted to know.
"We still have a kind of advantage," Danton said. "They don't know who
we are, or where. They know nothing."
"Neither do we," Keith said. "There's a chance Seers was wrong about
the Oligarchs. Maybe their culture has changed. Maybe they don't intend
to attack Earth."
"Their ego couldn't stand to forget their defeat," Danton said. "They
had a highly advanced technology that could conceivably control any
environment, rather than the other way round. In some ways they were
ahead of the rest of the world."