Extraits

“I’ll need you to bring the brooding down to, say, half as much. If you don’t we’ll be over quota, and Jorgen used up all of our supply last month. Scud even Arturo has been doing too much lately. I think I’m the only one in this entire flight who hasn’t been draining our brooding quota.”

“Wow. Did you really defeat ten guards and run all the way here in under five minutes?”

I fired again. And again. Just to see if I could bring the shield down. When it didn’t work, I sighed.

“I only had to beat five guards,” I admitted. “I waited for a shift change, and there’s a group of them that tends to leave early.”

Brad sighed loudly. “You’re kidding me. Look, I promise we have ‘some’ competent soldiers.”

“I wish I could cut things in half with my mind,” Sadie said, still hanging upside down. “It would make it so much easier to get my rations open. Why do they seal the field rations so tight?”

“I doubt Jorgen uses his power for such mundane things, Sentry,” Kymmalyn said.

I didn’t contradict her.