CHAPTER 22
The metal sizzled near the fusion point, then two energy blades pierced it, tearing it apart like melted butter. What was left of the door of the rest stop fell with a loud thud onto the asphalt.
Zui Mar and Dan-Lee went into the street, brandishing their weapons, followed by Nemer and Ruya. The pain caused by what they had just witnessed was unmistakable on their shocked faces. After having lived along with the people of Chakar III for many cycles, despite keeping their distances, they all had learned their habits, faces, and names over time. While fire engulfed the flesh of those poor people in the video, horror and guilt overcame them, as searing as flaming blades.
With tears in her eyes, Ruya explained how she had sensed the danger. Sitting at the bar, she had tried to br
