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The footage showed more broken bodies, more blood spilt. The surrounding buildings were smoking, licks of flame in upper windows.
Genna watched. She should have felt something—anger, frustration, sadness. But she’d seen this too often.
She counted, flicking from feed to feed. Ten—no, eleven bodies. Five male, at least two female, the others unknown. A couple she recognised as being from her district, but most were Miolar’s men.
Beside her stood both Miolar and Leopold, both watching the screens in silence. Lomaz stood by the desk, hand resting by his control screen.
Miolar broke the silence.
“There was one got away. Badly wounded, with a serious head injury. Stated that there were three attackers, and that they didn’t even try to sneak up on the outpost. Walked up to t
