by Snorb » Sat Jun 28, '14, 11:28 am
"Oh, damn..."
The redworms were proving to be more tenacious than intel suggested; Rio frowned as she saw their sheer numbers, threatening to overwhelm her friends on the ground. She closed her eyes, tightening her grip on her rifle.
It's time. I need to use it again.
It was a strange power she had used on previous missions. The last time Rio used it, it was on a large redworm that had just eaten one of her companions alive. She thought about the scream of mortal terror, just seconds before he disappeared into the worm's maw.
Her eyes opened, a strange teal glow emanating from them. Rio could sense time itself slowing around her-- the worms, her companions, even her own heartbeat seemed much slower. Her hands still seemed to move at their normal speed.
She brought the rifle back to sight on a redworm, and fired. Cycling a new round into place, she fired again. And again. And again. Every few "seconds" (Was it seconds? she wondered. Or does it just feel like seconds to me?) she would reload her rifle or change targets. The result was always the same: Rio managed to fire about twenty rounds in the same time it took a normal Palman to fire two.
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