With the active camouflage working all an observer would have seen was a few puffs of dirt too far apart to possibly be connected, and they might have heard slight thuds. But no one was close enough, so she passed unobserved.
She sprinted towards what was by far the tallest building in the settlement. She leapt, catching hold of a three-metre high gantry on the side. She scrambled up the metal stairs to the top of the building and threw herself down, taking in the situation.
By now the humans were halfway to the edge of the settlement and the Garags were almost in position to strike. She wasn’t going to be able to get the artefact from the humans, so now she had to focus on helping the humans rather than killing them. At all costs she had to keep the artefact from the Garags. If sh
