Shutting her eyes tight, Anna banged the back of her head on the wall. “When it rains, it pours,” she muttered. “Okay, let’s-”
She noticed that the sound of gunfire had stopped.
Two grenades flew out of the adjoining hallway, landing in the intersection.
“Get behind me!”
Anna and Jack stood together, both tapping the portable force-field generators on their vests. Two flickering screens of static appeared just before the grenades went off with a devastating roar. The explosion splashed up against the energy barrier and then dissipated.
When it was over, she saw that the walls and floor were no longer white. Instead, they had been scorched black, and smoke rose from the rubble. At least no one had been hurt.
Sighing, Anna looked down at herself. “Well, this is useless,” she said, tapp
