Her voice. It sounded so real. The explosive I’d thrown a few moments ago exploded at the base’s entrance. The creature holding me stumbled sideways from the shock of the blast. She lowered her free claw to steady her large frame. Stood once more. Lifted that same claw to finish what she’d started. Her head exploded right in front of me. The creature went rigid. Dust from the rock around the base’s entrance rained down in a fine powder, coating me in a layer of dust that stuck to the gore already covering me from head to foot. She fell and I fell with her, landing on my left side, still impaled on her claw. I looked to my right to confirm I still held the last weapon. Fire. An inferno. I had to see the disk because I could feel…nothing. It was there. I wrapped my hand around the devic

