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QUEEN NEFARIA TURNED Lillian Lightstone’s memory stick over and over between her thumb and forefinger.
Her stare was fixed on the diminutive man kneeling before her, his eyes downturned, his midnight-blue robe pulled around him. Navy light cast from the lamps behind Nefaria’s black-rock throne flickered over his face and smooth scalp. The room was completely silent.
‘Saphiro, you are my best intelligence agent. You say you have tracked down a source for a superconductor.’
Nefaria’s voice, though soft, seemed to fill the cavernous room. Without raising his eyes, the man nodded.
‘Tell me what you have learned over the last year of your mission,’ the Queen ordered.
Saphiro looked up at Nefaria with his almond eyes.
‘The Terrans had a theory that the unique chemical composition of the planet Saturn was producing diamonds — the lightning…
