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Mentor’s Comm Room


“I am Tinsori Light!”

Tolly Jones stumbled and spun, eyes narrowing as the lighting flickered and dimmed.

“All systems are under my control.”

Damn they are, Tolly thought and by that time he was running for the nearest lift.


The lift door opened as he approached, and the man standing there smiled.

“Well, Thirteen-Sixty-Two,” he said. “How convenient.”

He raised a hand, bringing the whistle to his lips.

The sound juddered through Tolly’s head even as he leapt forward, hands moving quickly, competently.

“I don’t have time for this.”


The lift door opened just as Jen Sin yos’Phelium flashed past, a bar in one hand.

Tolly leapt after him.

“Jen Sin, no!”

But the light keeper kept going, at no inconsiderable speed.

Tolly was accounted pretty fast, but the other man was pulling away from him, and gods, if he tried to use that bar on the array—

“Jen Sin!”

It was Theo, now, moving not too slow herself, keeping pace at Tolly’s shoulder.

“Tocohl!” he yelled. “Don’t open the core door!”

They flashed ’round the final corner then, in time to see Jen Sin headed directly for the door, speed undiminished.

Gonna be a bad shock to the system when he hits, Tolly thought.

The door to the core opened.

“I’m sorry, Mentor,” Tocohl said. “Those systems are no longer under my control.”


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