Chapter 100: The s*******r Realized
The sudden cessation of gunfire fell upon the courtyard with the jarring finality of an iron portcullis slamming shut against stone. The last cluster of black rubber projectiles ricocheted off the frozen municipal curb, sending gray fragments of pulverized asphalt skimming across the road, and then the four automated turrets along the carriage drive abruptly cut their feeds.
Their electric drive motors decelerated in unison, the high whine dropping down the auditory scale until the spinning barrels slowed to a dead stop.
Beneath the rounded brows of the armored housings, the multi spectrum optical domes swiveled forty five degrees upward, locking their sapphire lenses into resting detents.
The perimeter sensors had registered that every moving therma
