Chapter Forty-Three
The two of them closed in on a new platform surrounding an entertainment tower.
The structure was cloaked by the shadows of surrounding towers. None of the bright lights or holographic displays were on, leaving a tenebrous patch in an otherwise brightly lit Halloween night.
Flitters lifted off the ground as panicked people rushed toward parked vehicles, including several sprawled on the ground. A masked man with a rifle stood near the center, clearly marked by his muzzle flashes.
His gun sent a steady stream of bullets into an escaping flitter, shredding its rear. The smoking vehicle jerked and glided toward the platform, the remaining grav emitters and thrusters keeping it from plunging to its doom.
Dim emergency lights activated, revealing more of the horror. Eve
