On the other side of the car, Corovin climbed out of the back seat and stood up to glower at the barricade. The man was wearing the heavy black armour that he had stolen on Antaur. He had come through the SlipGate in that thing, prompting several Keepers to point guns at him. Only his head was uncovered. “That"s why you"re going to lose,” he said. “You can"t believe it would actually happen.”
“Oh, we believed it,” Anna countered. “Why do you think there were twenty-four heavily-armed space stations in orbit of this planet?”
“For all the good it did.”
Glancing over her shoulder, Anna narrowed her eyes. “You"re the one who decided to join a losing cause,” she said. “Could have flown off anywhere in the galaxy and lived a quiet life.”
Corovin strode forward, trailing his fingers over the
