Chloe hesitated. It was clear to Violet that she wanted her dead but she hesitated. Loyalty to the cause warred with fear. With the knowledge that there was nothing that Chloe could do to Violet. She couldn’t kill or imprison Violet or if there was some chance of that it was very low.
“What now?” Violet asked. “Are you all talk? All bark and no bite?
What happened to all that tough talk? You want more bloodshed? Look around here. Most of the forces we came here with are dead. We’ve barely found any people since landing. The entire planet seems mostly deserted. The cradle of humanity reduced to little more than a haunted house and infested with some kind of an alien invasive ecosystem.
Everything is falling apart and you want us to fight amongst ourselves? That makes sense to you? And
