The Last Stand

During the silence that followed Daneel's statement, the King of Lanthanor conjured a globe of light, allowing them to see the place that they had holed themselves in.

Before he got to any more of the details except that it was completely empty, though, a loud sound interrupted him.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP THUMP!

As one, all three of them turned in the direction where it was coming from, and of course, there stood the door that they had just come through.

3 seconds. That was all it had taken for the damn monsters to get here, and as the sovereigns calculated the increase in strength that would be necessary for them to cover such a large distance in such a short while, cold sweat sprung up on their backs as they realized that they would have been caught in a fraction of that time if their King hadn't figured out a solution.