Kaira didn’t know how long passed. It felt like an eternity, but it might as easily have been just five or ten minutes. The fighting outside the clinic continued for a time, intensified, and then stopped abruptly.
There was silence for a time, then two more sharp bursts of firing before silence fell again. Finally she heard someone approaching. She tensed, but Tarkus held his hand up.
“Let’s at least see who it is,” he said.
“If it’s Korg, I’m killing him!” she replied.
“I agree. Just be sure it really is him. This is the sort of situation where it can be really easy to misidentify someone. Make sure it’s him before firing.”
Kaira took a deep breath, let it out, then nodded. From anyone else that might have sounded patronising, but she trusted Tarkus. He was stressing it, mak
