“f*****g b***h. Get in there.”
The hard voice of the trooper half dragging, half carrying her ordered as the door to the lift opened in front of them. It had taken two of them to get her across the walkway. All she wanted to do was get back to Johnny, the image of his fallen body etched forever in her mind.
Stumbling forward, she collided with the back wall of the lift and used it to hold her up. Her legs were weak, hopelessness and misery invading every cell of her body. They’d shot him in the head, the two retorts of the pistol still ringing in her ears. Her stomach rolled. She didn’t even want to think of the damage that had done.
She’d seen broken androids before. The Starflame had transported a bulk load of military spec damages last year. It had been so eerie to see them lined up
