Chapter 123
HD 219134 g. K-type star HR 8832
Cassiopeia System
Colonel Mikhail Mannuki’ili
MIKHAIL
A mortar exploded next to them, spraying them in the face with dirt. A woman screamed. Glicki!
"Fall back! Fall back!" The order came over the radio.
Mikhail rushed to her side, cradling her in his arms. Her green, prayer-like grasping arms were held close to her chest, trembling in pain.
"Glicki," he said. "You're going to be okay."
He touched her green exoskeleton, which had taken the brunt of the shrapnel. Green blood seeped out of the joint of one of the four legs she used to walk.
"Good thing we come with built-in armor?" she chirped out of her voice translator.
Another mortar exploded, even closer. He shielded her with his wings as debris rained down upon them.
"Can you walk
