Chapter 46
He smiled, then grimaced.
My smile disappeared. I didn’t have to ask him how bad it was; I was having trouble blocking out his pain. Something we hadn’t quite perfected yet, but even if we had, I doubted I could block this much pain.
Malvolio strode across the room.
“What have you done? You could have brought the whole mountain down on us, you imbeciles! You’ve ruined my device and delayed my plans.”
He waved the pistol around as he spoke and I noticed he was uninjured. He must have been standing outside Daniel’s shield.
“It will cost me a lot of credits to have it rebuilt — and I will have it rebuilt. I will still go ahead with my plan, and you won’t be around anymore to stop me.”
Before he could fire the pistol and end my life, a group of black-clad people came into the
