“You have a telepath prisoner here.”
“What of it?”
“You don't understand why holding a human being captive is a problem? And you call me arrogant?”
She drew her pistol and took aim.
A flickering force-field appeared in front of both men just before she squeezed the trigger, her shots bouncing off the buzzing wall of electrostatic energy. Thinking on her feet, she tossed the body aside.
She dove to her right, passing through a narrow opening in the serving counter, and landed on her side next to a stainless steel island. No doubt the serving bots used that to chop up vegetables. “Multi-tool active!” she gasped. “Begin white noise protocol. Jam all electromagnetic and SlipSpace radio frequencies!”
Shots rang out, striking the counter and sending chunks of wood flying. Some of them punc
