She fell into the arms of the Kantenan as another explosion rocked the platform and Adryel to her core.
9
STRON
Everything rocked forward as a second explosion shook the platform.
The female with the bright hair who was more obstinate than anyone he’d ever met—except maybe Dhomhes—slammed against him. Her whole body hit his.
Instantly, he wrapped his arms around her, and they both hit the ground hard. His armor extended, wrapping tightly, safely, around them both.
He rolled as they fell, guarding her against the brunt of the impact. The blast left the whole place ringing and his head throbbing from the force of the explosion. The platform surged and wavered underneath them
Was it falling?
So disoriented, Stron wasn't sure. In weak attempts to orientate himself, he tried to find something in the chaos. Bodies lay everywhere scattered haphazardly across what was left of the platform. Some bodies moved, some didn't.
Suddenly, The Galactic Alliance’s ship exploded. The initial blast was in the middle, and subsequent ones traveled down the hull like a chain.
A secondary explosion sent the remnants of the ship skidding off the side of the landing platform and over the edge.
Stron could not believe how silent it was, at least until he realized that everything was silent.
The girl turned and looked at him. She opened her mouth to speak, but said nothing.
She started waving her hand in front of his face.
He couldn't hear her.
He couldn't hear anything.
Then he though his own head was going to explode from the sudden ringing and the pressure.
“Hey! Kantenan,” the female's voice started to cut through the ringing.
He blinked and rubbed his face. “Yes.”
“What’s going on? We’re stuck here!” Her face paled. “We have to get out of here! We can’t stay here!”
Stron put his hands on her arms. “Breathe.” He stared into her eyes, wide in panic and terror.
“We’re, we’re?—”
“You’re okay, Adryel. You’re going to be safe.”
“Not feeling that,” she said, twisting in his arms. She winced, crying out in pain.
The move made him wince as well.
“Guess we both need to see medical.”
He glared at her.
Adryel grinned at him.
“First though,” she said, and gestured to his armor that still had them both cocooned in a protective net.
“You don’t like being protected?” he managed to say.
