Serene and pristine stars adorned a noir sky. One Azarean guard stood oblivious to the beauty above, upright, astute, and stiff in scanning the blackness of the night. Back and forth, he purposefully walked along the roads of suburbia. Down the sidewalk, between the luminescent lamps, and down the midnight greens, he continued until he realized there was nothing out of the ordinary. As a result, his attention relaxed until he dared to surrender to peace. He looked at the moon. Jessica could tell he wanted to remove his helmet and behold unadulterated space, to contemplate life as it may have survived on his home planet. Then she touched and shocked the hell out of him through the voltage in her glove, so toppled his motor functions and made him shake like a fish out of water. His face b

