“And if I don’t?”
“Then I’ll shoot you where you are.”
“Then I’m afraid that’s what you’ll have to do. You’ve become too tiresome to bother with.”
Belilo glanced nervously at her companions. If she backed down now, they might as well just surrender, for they would be Consakannis’s prisoners within this bubble. Much as she hated to admit it, they’d lost control of their captive. He wasn’t afraid of them, and she saw plainly that nothing she could do would give her any power over him. Reluctantly she pressed the firing stud and watched the energy beam lash out to devour Consakannis’s body.
The man died instantly. Within moments of his death, the three soldiers felt the bubble around them shake as though in a massive earthquake. The glow from the walls died and the walls themselves blurre
