Planet Leviathan

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In the glowing red light of the hold, the two guards probably thought they looked more sinister and powerful than normal. To Stacia X-79, they just looked scared. Maybe not full out petrified, but that was only because she was held firmly to the wall by magnetic locks. Both of them stood on the opposite side of the hold, likely because they had been ordered to keep as much distance from her as possible. If the magnetic locks failed somehow and they were standing right next to her, they probably believed she could crush both their heads before either knew what was happening.

That wasn’t true. It was highly unlikely that she could crush more than one head at a time. The other would clearly have time to be surprised before she turned him into bloody splatter on the bulkhead.

She wasn’t going to try that, though. Not only did the magnetic locks have backup power to their backups, but she had no intention of trying to escape. She had to give General Borealis what was coming to her, and she couldn’t accomplish that anywhere other than where they were taking her.

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