((back! For now at least!))
Ardiss, who had taken to hiding in the nearby woods during the battle, had contemplated leaving the bar forever. Unfortunately, she was shipless and a spaceship was not the easiest thing to steal. After wandering around aimlessly for awhile she had no other choice but to return to the bar and hope that it had acquired some new tenants that may be more helpful.
Ardiss, in her new female human host, slips into the bar and keeps to the shadow. She recognizes many faces in the bar. Corliss, the two filthy Andalites, the small boy that Christine, her host, had tried to befriend. There are also several new faces. Ardiss, for the time being, avoids all of them and takes a table in the back, wishing her host had come with a Dracon beam.