You see, now that the mind-ray is blocked, what will the aliens do about it? Will those armed bullies who were under mind-control continue to be armed bullies? Will the populace generally survive withdrawal from the addictive obedience drug that the armed bullies were feeding them?

Who will fill the leadership void?

And what about Bleithe who disappeared in the avalanche, but he had already disappeared in the hurricane and survived it and is in love with Our Heroine? Is he really gone? Has he been captured by the aliens? Is he just running from the possibility of meeting his future father-in-law?