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Once the LIncoln RealIzes It Is dead"

A tiny signal pings in soe

For hate’s sake, I spit h, not a curse, I fire

"You got it!"

Kady watches the Lincoln split into a billion glittering fraged grin at her lips

She makes a fist, punches a ter until the new star becoed

I wonder how it tastes

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"You got thee L-shaped incision into the hatchway

The afflicted will break through to her soon Eighteen Capricorn-4’s and nine Goliath shipkiller h the silence toward us In less than two minutes, they will be here

This moment These next few seconds They may be all that is left

"We"

She falls still at that Looks into the eye of the console beside her

"We got the Nods slow "Hypatia is safe"

"Yes"

"… We did it"

"Yes"

Flesh and bone pounding on the hatchway Voices screa as the es half a sO tO my head TheRe Is veRy little Of It left HOweveR, even were It nOt for the afflIcted hackingnucleaR cOnflagRatIon"

Kady glances up at thefast

Alar like a sawtooth choir

"That’s a lot ofup, targeting the Lincoln’s parting gifts

They will not be enough to stop thee it would better to be i the afflicted will gift her She glances to the hatch, the pinpoints of light cutting a new door--one to usher in an ending she dares not i to die

"All right," she says, turning back to her defense grid controls She targets the nearestturrets "Let’s frag us some nukes"