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Fired.
The kickback and subsequent explosion nearly blew me off the ledge. The drone exploded in a fireball and dropped from the wall to the roof below. On its way down, it broke into flaming chunks that rained down onto the pavement.
“s**t!” Sheydu called. “Why did you do that?”
“It wouldn’t recognise my accent. It was giving warnings.”
“Damn it. We’re gone, finished.”
“No, we’re not.” I remembered this chilling sense of determination that came over me when under threat. We were going to get into that room, and I was going to use that key. “Where is the command room?”
“We need to climb into the last window on the ledge. It’s right behind that wall, on the corner.”
Which wasn’t all that far. “Come on, let’s go. Go, go, now. Shoot everything in our way.”
