Anti-Portal Tech

"Dragon," I said, stepping into a lobby in Canada.

"Taylor," she said, her face appearing on a screen.

"You've just finished a batch of portal detectors," I said.

"You just finished the portal research!" she said. "But there isn't going to be enough time to make more then ten of devices before the attack."

Portal technology was becoming clearer and clearer to me now that I was learning how the parasites created their effects. A lot of powers involved pulling mass or energy from somewhere else, and when you saw the same thing done in a hundred different ways, eventually you started seeing commonalities. The parasites didn't seem to do that, though. They were literal parasites off the backs of more imaginative, more creative races, and they didn't make those kinds of connections that would have been obvious to a human.

Once they were shown the way, they were great at following the path, but even then they were inefficient about it.

The devices I'd created could close all portals in a ten block radius. My guess was that the Senators were going to want them all placed in Denver to protect the new center of government. But the PRT was going to want to put them in the hands of teleporters to be moved to places where they were losing. No other country was likely to get one at all.

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Treason