8 Honestly, Ash didn’t know what to think. He’d barely had time to hide again when another group of soldiers began stopping people and scanning them. He had threaded his way through back alleys along with dozens of others trying to escape the security net the Legion was closing over the city. His trek toward the spaceport turned into a game of cat and mouse. Just when he thought he would be safe, he had come across the four in the alley in time to see Brutus the Butthead striking a trapped woman. There were a lot of things Ash was willing to look the other way for – but watching men beat up a woman was not one of them. Ash warily followed the boy he struck earlier. They paused outside of the dark building on the outskirts of town. A loud sound distracted him for a moment. He turned his

