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She was intent on her path and hadn’t seen him. Hans pulled back into the side of the cliff wall where the tunnel to the Great Hall had been laid open. He timed his entrance back into the caverns with the shutting-off of his shield and prepared to assault the woman by hand. He’d not risk an exchange of null energy, but the risk of hand-to-hand was certainly just as fatal. He’d have one chance at landing a single blow to take her alive. If she made it past him and deeper into the complex, she would be killed by gate defences. He crouched in the darkened alcove as she passed him at a dead run, pulling at the pack on her back—apparently, believing her target was close at hand. She looked just as human as he, her being Wattenfolk and an …show more content…

Next to the evidence sat the Wattenfolk woman in a chair bound by field wire. She had not spoken a word yet but glared at them with intelligent eyes that glistened. “When the next wave, or the next, or the next after that, finally break throu—” “They have never broken through,” Veran said to the woman with a look of disgust and pity. “Not in seventeen thousand years has a single Wattenfolk made it this far,” Chalk added. “She made it this far,” Hans said, also to the woman. “Yet no further,” Chalk finished. “And you’re all willing to allow this fight to continue another thousand years? Or ten thousand?” “It’s their doing…” “It is your doing!” the Wattenfolk woman hissed. “That argument has been made, and yes—our doing,” Chalk admitted. “The Wattenfolk have chosen, in their ignorance, to believe the end of days is a falsehood.” Veran laughed at that, and even Hans struggled to keep himself composed. “The Wattenfolk race is of the ocean, and you and yours would see us exterminated.” “How she talks!” Veran exclaimed in a triumphant giggle that was cut off by the sudden lurch of the earth below their feet and the deep bass booming from another quake. “You see what you’ve accomplished...” she muttered. “You are afraid of it as much as we.” The floor shook again, this time side to side, and the two engineers grabbed at each other and the bench to remain standing. Veran knelt low and spread himself over the bare rock floor.

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