Chapter 9: CasperFrom the cab of his EE5 extensible, Casper looked down at the woman below him, puzzling at the bizarre-looking plants growing in the odd, wind-torn desert, but even more bewildered by what he'd just witnessed.
She bludgeoned her attacker with a stone! he thought. What an odd thing for a Lemurian to do! Why didn't she sprout lightning from her fingertips or death rays from her eyes? he wondered. Casper watched warily for a few minutes.
She stared dully back at him, evincing no exertion from the physical altercation she'd just had, the limp body of her victim at her feet. After a fight like that, he expected to see her chest heaving, unable to catch her breath. He saw her eyes take in the machine that encased him, his face visible through the cab's plasma face-shield. Then
