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“SERIOUSLY, MELATI, what did they feed you up there in the CAU? You just went pew-pew-pew and you must have hit five or six guys and you didn’t even flinch.”
“Shut up and run.” She had pulled the visor down. The inside display gave her the metrics of her own body: temperature, heart rate, oxygen consumption.
“Go away,” she muttered at the annoying characters that cluttered her vision with useless information.
They came to the lift foyer. Ari ran to the lift, but Melati told him, “Too dangerous. Let’s take the stairs.” Her voice sounded muffled inside the helmet.
So they ran a bit further and entered the stairwell.
“What are we doing now anyway?” Ari asked behind her.
“Abandoning all caution.”
“Tell me something new.”
They got to the bottom of the stairs, where a group of New Py
