“You see what you have done?” asked an unseen voice, female Nova thought though it was hard to be certain. “Are you proud of yourself? Do you know how many hundreds of children you just killed? Do you know how many you have maimed already? Are you willing to kill more? What sort of monster are you?”
“I didn’t know! And you gave me no choice!”
“Of course we gave you a choice,” the voice said, scornfully. The images of dead, dying and hurt children continued to play. “You could have surrendered. You still could. Do it now. I don’t believe you’re a monster. Prove me right. There are children on all our ships. Save the children!”
Nova stared at the rapidly changing pictures of c*****e, then replied in a weak voice. “Please. No more. I don’t want to kill children. I don’t w
