Zzt felt triumphant.
The animal had been hurt and hurt badly. It could have been better. The roll of the drone had caused a slight miscalculation in the throw, and instead of totally severing the animal’s head as he intended, the plate had hit a strut of the plane skids and then had struck the animal.
thenBut the results had been very satisfactory. There was red blood all over the floor plates under there.
The animal had fired a new small weapon up the corridor. But in the mirror Zzt could see that the animal was passing out, coming to for an instant, and passing out again. Zzt had waited. The animal would pass out long enough for Zzt to dart forward and finish it.
However, it didn’t quite come off as Zzt had planned. The animal had crawled backward toward the back end of the drone, ha
