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head. “Yes.”
    He looked around at the devastation around him. “We will not have a second resurgence, will we?”
    She shook her head and her companion remained silent.
    “You are the children of a lost universe. You chose the path to power, that hunger has led you here. You will not sow the seeds of the past in this time.”
    She stepped toward him and Drenliako drew his blade, rushing toward her. He had one chance at life and it was through her.
    The delicate woman moved with startling speed. She ducked under his arm and her companion gripped him, holding him still while she stared into his eyes and pulled his life from him.
     
    * * * *
     
    Nothing but ash remained in her hands. Sky flexed her fingers and looked to her mate. Tavik was grim.
    “I don’t like this, Tavik.”
    “I know, love, but it must be done and the Vorwings will not be foolish enough to expose themselves again.”
    Sky looked out the viewports and watched the battles around them, the second wave of Raider ships was being fought off by a shocking presence. The Kozue were defending Resicor.
    “That is not a sight that I anticipated. The Watchers are going to go crazy looking for angles on this battle.”
    Tavik laughed. “That is their problem. We have to seek out another target. A dozen Vorwings are in the vicinity and we need to return as many as we can.”
    Sky nodded and stepped into his embrace, holding the energy taken from the General inside her. It had to be returned to the Orb before they could return in search of another target. She patted her scissors and thought of the moment that she had acted on her own instead of in the path of the Orb. Once this was over, she might just do it again.
     
    * * * *
     
    “Makki!” Colah raced toward her niece, trying to beat the Raider who had the young girl in his path. She poured on the speed and projected herself through the spaces between them, slowing slightly so as not to injure Makki as she scooped her up.
    Straight up was the safest place to go.
    “Aunty Col!”
    The small arms were tight around her neck.
    “Where is your mom, sweetie?”
    “The school. Everyone is hiding in the school.”
    “Why were you out?”
    Makki leaned back and looked at her with astonishment. “There are people flying out here. I wanted to see.”
    Chuckling but worried, Col called Ysyr. “Ysyr, we are heading toward the school. I don’t know if they have been herded or not. I am carrying the gun.”
    He sighed in her earpiece. “Keep yourself safe. Don’t let them shoot you.”
    “Then come and help me.”
    “I am working on one of the landing craft.”
    “Then quit whining.” Col laughed and landed in front of the school that she had attended with her sister two decades earlier.
    She set Makki back on her feet and pulled her gun around. Normally she wouldn’t carry it but this wasn’t a normal day. She fired on approaching Raiders and backed slowly toward the school.
    “Aunty Col, you look different.”
    “So do you, pet. You have grown.”
    They backed toward the school and the door opened. “Makki, get in here.”
    Colah grinned at her sister’s voice. “Come on, Cabbi. She just wants to see the fliers.”
    Her sister let out a shocked cry and Colah made sure that the school wasn’t under threat from any visible angle before she lowered her gun and turned around. “Into the school, Makki. We need to make a plan.”
    Once inside, a man locked the door while staring at Col in shock. “Colah Geering. You are in the dome.”
    Col shook her head and followed her niece down the hall. “Not for a few years now. Come on, we need to see what weapons we have at our disposal. How many people are holed up here?”
    Cabbi blinked and said, “Four hundred, but we don’t have weapons.”
    Col chuckled and put her arm around her sister in half a hug. “And you also thought I couldn’t fly. Now, let me see what we are working with and we will make a plan.”
    The gym was filled with bodies, huddling