Chapter 1
New Earth - Distant future
Alyna tilted her head to watch the two glowing bullets flying as if in slow motion toward the two men's heads.
She had practiced her two-handed shooting skill for years but couldn't say she had ever perfected it. She would normally hit around ninety-five percent of the targets. But the remaining five percent bothered her.
She holstered her two guns and punched a button on the wall. At the far end of the shooting range, the two dummy targets glowed in a neon green light, and her shooting score hovered in the air above the targets in a light green color.
Her left-hand score was perfect, but her score from the right-hand gun wasn’t so good. She had missed the head by four inches. The floating screen printed all kinds of statistics—her accuracy, her tr
