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As soon as she was within range, Sid’s raised voice could be heard from her com.
“Kiersten! By the Source, girl, where are you?”
Aiden maneuvered around people that darted for cover, several pieces of the burned-up ship having already struck buildings or the middle of roadways. Fires were everywhere. Citizens lay wounded or already dead on the stones of the streets, others screamed for loved ones misplaced in the chaos. He drove the hovercraft to the gates of the palace, where they saw the remnants of the vaccine distribution. Both clamored off the craft and pressed themselves against the inside of the stone wall, out of the way of panicked colonists.
“I’m at the gates, with Aiden. There was a ship that broke apart… hells bells,” Kiersten stopped and narrowed her eyes at the vessels
