Kira would love to witness the resulting explosion.
They fell quiet, each lost in their own thoughts as they moved closer to the center of the room and the pedestal waiting there.
“I think I know what Finn heard,” Raider called in a low, grim tone.
She looked over to find him crouched next to the body of an oshota.The Tuann had been attacked by some type of weapon Kira didn’t recognize.The skin of his face was scorched.Parts of it charred and black.The synth armor had been melted to his body on his torso and his chest was half caved in like he’d taken some type of blast.
Raider rose as he and Kira scanned their surroundings.
“There!”Raider said, spotting the perpetrator first.
He pointed at a murky figure on the other side of the curtain of water.All Kira caught was an impression of size.Large.Bulky.Maybe wearing synth armor.
Finn raced past her just as the person threw something into the water.Kira heard the plonk and saw the ripples in the water.
The person took off as Finn plowed through the waterfall in pursuit.
“Shit,” Kira cursed, wanting to follow but knowing her first priority was to remove whatever it was that had been thrown into the Nexus’s water.She didn’t know what it would do, but she doubted it was good.“Wren!Auralyn!”Kira screamed.
Raider was ahead of her, already plunging his hand into the narrow channel to fish out the foreign object in there.
“Almost there,” Raider crooned, his face a mask of concentration despite the pain he had to be experiencing.“Gotcha!”
Frowning, Raider lifted his hand out of the channel, the skin bright red and blistered, as he held up a transparent orb the size of an eyeball.
Kira swatted him upside the head.“Are you an idiot?Why would you stick your hand in that?”
Mea’Ave save her from humans with death wishes.
Raider acted like he barely noticed her love tap as he handed the orb to Kira.“What do you think this is?”
She cradled the orb in her hand.What she’d taken as transparent actually had swirls of green deep inside, their intensity growing for a second before fading.
Seeing Raider start to lean over the channel again, Kira jerked him back.“Stop that.”
“There are more.”
Kira’s gaze followed where he was pointing.The water glinted.Swirls of green and red playing peek-a-boo in its depths.
Once again Raider’s hand crept toward the water.Kira slapped it away.“I’ll do it.Just stay there.”
She swore he was worse than Elena sometimes.
Kneeling, Kira stuck her hand into the water.It was like dipping her hand into a pool of pure electricity.She gritted her teeth as the planet’s soul crashed into her mind.Tingling followed by numb burning climbed from the tips of her fingers, to her wrist, all the way up to her elbow.
“Fuck, fuck, fuck.”
This hurt.
Hurriedly, Kira fished the two orbs out of the water, tossing them onto the floor next to her.
“Finally.”Kira yanked her hand out of the water, cradling it in her lap.“I never want to do that again.”
Like Raider’s, the skin was bright red and blistered.
“Should have used your non-dominant hand,” Raider mused.
Kira fixed him with a flat stare.
