You are an LEP officer.
There is more at stake here than your personal grieving. Time enough to cry later.
In a minute. I’ll get up in a minute. I just need sixty seconds.
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Incapacitated.
‘How touching,“ said a voice, robotic and familiar.
Holly did not even look up. “Koboi. Have you come to gloat? Does murder make you happy?”
‘Hmm?“ said the voice, seriously considering the question. ”You know, it does. It actually does make me happy.“
Holly sniffled, shaking the last tears from her eyes. She decided that she would not cry again until Koboi was behind bars.
‘What do you want?“ she asked,top quality louis vuitton handbags, rising from the concrete roof. Hovering at head height was a small biobomb. This model was spherical, about the size of a melon, and equipped with a plasma screen. Opal’s happy features were plastered across the monitor.
‘Oh, I just followed you from the chute because I wanted to see what total despair looks like. It’s not very fetching, is it?“
For a few moments the screen displayed Holly’s own distraught face before flashing back to Opal.
‘Just detonate, and be damned,“ growled Holly.
The bio-bomb rose a foot, slowly circling Holly’s head.
‘Not just yet. I think there’s a spark of hope in you yet. So I would like to extinguish that. In a moment I will detonate the bio-bomb. Nice, isn’t it? How do you like the design? Eight separate boosters, you know,louis vuitton replica cheap.
It’s what happens after the detonation that’s important.“
Holly’s law-enforcer curiosity was piqued in spite of the circumstances. “What happens then, Koboi? Don’t tell me, world domination.”
Koboi chuckled, the volume distorting her laugh through the bomb’s microspeakers. “World domination? You make it sound so unattainable. The first step is simplicity itself. All I have to do is put humans in contact with the People.”
Holly felt her own troubles instantly slip away. “Put humans in contact with the People? Why would you do that?”
Opal’s features lost their merry cast. “Because the LEP imprisoned me. They studied me like an animal in a cage, and now we shall see how they like it. There will be a war, and I will supply the humans with the weapons to win. And after they have won, my chosen nation will be the most powerful on earth. And I, inevitably, will become the most powerful person in that nation.”
Holly almost screamed. “All this for a childish pixie’s revenge.”
Seeing Holly’s discomfort cheered Opal immediately. “Oh no, I’m not a pixie anymore.”
Koboi slowly unwound the bandages circling her head to reveal two surgically rounded humanoid ears. “I’m one of the Mud People now. I intend to be on the winning side. And my new daddy has an engineering company. And that company is sending down a probe.”
‘What probe?“ shouted Holly. ”What company?“ Opal wagged a finger. ”Oh no, enough explaining. I want you to die desolate and ignorant.“ For one moment her face lost its false merriment, and Holly could see the hatred in her huge eyes. ”You cost me a year of my life, Short. A year of a brilliant life.
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