Page 32 of Seer Prophet

Poking my head around the corner, I made out a long, narrow corridor.

It flashed in and out of view, lit by rotating orange emergency lights.

For the first time, it occurred to me how the electric got cut. The whole security system, as well as the power, had been tied into the construct. I rose higher in the Barrier, just enough to feel the mass of infiltrators working frantically to repair the damage I’d done.

Ten minutes had passed. Barely that.

Revik laid a hand on my arm, sending me an impulse to be careful.

Nodding, I checked our shield, then ventured deeper into the opening in the wall.

I was crouched in the low doorway, staring down that orange-lit passageway, when the first gun went off behind me.

The bullet came straight for my head.

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Iducked, but already too late.

Luckily, Revik was faster.

His light flared?a millisecond before the bullet veered off course. It pinged on the edge of the door, making me duck a second time.

I lurched through the opening, scrambling for cover.

Another bullet swung wide, impacting the wall.

Revik had done that, too.

I looked back and saw a line of soldiers emerging out of the smoke. They were moving fast in our direction. The orange emergency lights of the corridor illuminated their shadowy forms. They wore infrared goggles, held automatic rifles aimed at us.

They wore all black apart from the armbands of the Legion of Fire.

Revik threw up a shield, holding out a hand as they raised their guns.

Grabbing the arm of his jacket, I tugged him back into the opening right as they opened fire. I got him inside, if not out of the doorway itself, and started feeling over the walls with my hands and light, looking for another panel, some way to close the damned door.

I heard violent, loud cracks and winced.

Revik was breaking guns.

Well, hopefully guns.

Better guns than spines.

I found the panel and pinged Revik, who looked over just long enough to toss me the cutting tool. His eyes glowed a bright, otherworldly green, but I barely noticed. I couldn’t focus on him now?even with him standing in thegaos di'lalentedoorway.

Cracking the panel with the organic tool, I shoved my hands into the tendrils the way Revik had done. I heard another set of explosions from Revik. He’d just ignited the plasma bullets inside a gun magazine, probably semi-organic shells.

I peered past the opening, only to have another guard fire on me for my trouble.

“Stay out of sight, Alyson…d’gaos.”Revik shoved at me with a hand, raising his voice against the sound of gunfire. “I’m trying to scare them off… not kill them all.”

Just knock them out!I sent.

I would if I could, wife.

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