The man’s voice
was a tight growl. “You will stop
fighting or be hurt very badly, Earther.”
“Fuck you,”
Jessica’s voice finally offered a thin hiss of sound. She yanked again, but her strength was
failing once more. She steeled herself
for one last burst of energy, for one last attempt.
He carried her
outside into the sunshine-drenched loading dock. Shouts of angry Kalquorians exploded in the
air.
“Stop right
there!”
“Halt or be
shot!” Bevau’s infuriated roar was the
sweetest sound ever.
Sudden impact
knocked the Kalquorian carrying Jessica out from under her, and she spilled
onto the stone surface of the dock, her momentum rolling her onto her
back. She finally clearly saw the
abductor as he crouched over her. He
indeed wore the red formsuit of the Royal Guards, and his ferocious face was
vaguely familiar to her though she didn’t know his name.
One of her sworn
protectors had attacked her. It was a
bad sight to see.
The Nobek was
showing his fangs to Bevau, who stood only a few feet away. Her clanmate also snarled around
rattlesnake-like fangs, his body tensed for attack. Jessica wondered why he didn’t let the
Guardsman have it for an instant before realizing her would-be kidnapper held a
dagger inches from her chest.
The Guardsmen went
for his blaster with his other hand.
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