Chapter 24

Morrigan blinked, focusing on the chaos around her.

Transdot officers were fighting each other. There wasn’t this many before. Where had they all come from?

And how had they found Ula?

Her friend started to stir a few feet away.

Morrigan snuck across the ground to check on her friend everyone else was occupied. “What are you doing here?” she said, as Ula’s eyes focused on her. “And how did you not get killed just now? She didn’t shoot you with a standard issue blaster. That had a kill mode.”

Ula grinned. “Good thing my skin’s not standard issue.” In the sunlight, Morrigan noticed that Ula was damn near glowing. She held up her arm, and Mori could see the gold, almost like thread, all over her skin. Like a skinsuit of some kind.

Morrigan would have asked more, but she couldn’t. A man grabbed the back of her head, and yanked her to him.

Morrigan fought hard against him, kicking and punching, but he kept her still.

“I knew he didn’t kill you.” It was the officer who’d originally interrogated her at the Transdot station—Charz. He smelled like bad food.

And anger. A lot of anger.

“Let her go,” Ula said. She was now standing, and even in her green sleep clothes, she looked ten times more intimidating than she had before. Probably because she had three Transdot officers next to her.

Charz held out a knife. “I have to make sure she’s dead.”

Mori forced herself to relax. She closed her eyes, and let the sensation wash over her. She saw the field. The Colony. Everything around her. All the minutia of the fight going on.

Even Dumol and Cadell on the—

Wait.

She glanced up.

Falling from the flyer was Cadell.

Morrigan didn’t think.

She didn’t blink.

She didn’t stop and consider.

She just moved.

Charz was on the ground. Dead.

And Morrigan charged forward.