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Lukas had never seen what he saw now, and his decades of training made him think he’d lost something of his senses and was unable to put the facts together. But the longer those few critical seconds stretched on, the more he realized something truly miraculous had happened—was happening—right in front of them.
The Unclean’s weapons were entirely ineffective against Lukas and his companions. Lukas had braced himself for the impact of bullets and phaser blasts, thinking how foolish it was of them to not have armed their entire bodies with the protective gear Cephas had brought them; why would the enemy not aim at their heads at such close range? But the startling pressure and pain he’d expected under such an assault of firepower never came. It was as if an invisible wall had been lowere
