The price of power
Althea felt really dizzy while both the soldiers and the people around her were murmuring in amazement as they saw that strange giant being in purple fur.
Suddenly, the officer shouted a new order:
“Aim at the purple monster!”
The soldiers changed their target at once, much to Leto’s relief, but Althea intervened yelling:
“I’ll take care of it; worry about driving people away: I can’t fight if I risk to hurt someone!”
The officer took a quick look at the square and saw that, contrary to what he had thought earlier, many of the bodies lying on the pavement were not corpses, but frightened people, surprised and then thrown to the ground by the panicking crowd. Moreover, there were still some people aimlessly and mindlessly running from one side of the square to the o
