Members of the clan accompanying the Oprit squad knew the felled sapiens. Several began to run back to aid their downed friends. Trey and Anso tried to manhandle the group back into formation, but two managed to bolt from the cluster. When they emerged beyond the device’s invisibility cloak, they appeared to materialize out of thin air. The Port Authority soldiers were so taken aback they froze momentarily.
A third soldier emerged from between the buildings. Seeing the sapiens lying in heaps on the open ground and the two dark-skinned sapiens charging toward them like madmen, she shouldered a sonic blaster. At that moment, she was joined by half a dozen more soldiers. Three Oprit fighters stuck the barrels of their weapons mere centimetres outside the cloak and let fly a volley of charged
