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I have no physical advantage over the korabi All my plans have to be executed at a distance Once they are upon ht theht them I don’t have that bravery I just freeze

“Thought ouldn’t find you, scum? Think we don't know about you and the traitor Rath K’zar?”

That is a rhetorical question, I assume Obviously, I didn’t think they knew aboutaround the streets of Megaris if I thought these royal guards were coain, of course not I can’t work out if they are stupid, or if they think I ah opinions of people I think they respect scuh I doubt they really think about it

Elites are cosseted and spoiled, brainwashed and augmented They’re not really people They’re shells of people People with their brains scooped out, replaced with algorith Scum, we’re supposed to be the lowest of the low But at least we can think for ourselves It’s hard to survive in Megaris when you have no status whatsoever But we do Or we did Until Lyric brought Rath K’zar hoerous stray

The soldiers grab round It’s not necessary I wasn’t putting up a fight I’m not that stupid I don’t take korabi warriors on face to face I use their technology to knohere they are ahead of time, and I avoid them

There’s no need for the I am a third their size and an even sth They could pick me up and put me in their vehicle without issue But they take pleasure in breaking h handling, the prosthetic leg I made myself slips free

“Its leg came off!”

They ust, like I a off I reach for it, but before I can grab it, they kick it away That leg took me months to make, after years of development There are coet I watch with the taste of blood inbeneath their feet, sta joy in the destruction of the one thing that gave me freedom and made it possible for me to take action in this world

They cuffinto the trailer of their vehicle, bruised and aching, but otherwise unbroken I suppose I should count ression out on my prosthetic, but it is cold comfort as I roll around the back of their vehicle unsecured,harsh contact on the corners I curl up onthat would da How did they find hly distracted by the shit that Lyric just pulled, da the palace

I knohere they’re takingto the the worst possible place, at the worst possible time

Sure enough, the palace is in an uproar There are soldiers absolutely everywhere, and drones flying tight patterns around every bit of the place The korabi quarter doesn’t usually see this e life and pretend that all the goodness they enjoy doesn't come at the cost of the lives and sanity of millions of miserable humans

There’s dust everywhere, filtering up froet so it coat what I bet were once super shiny spires and shards of the palace We’ve desecrated this place Struck at the very heart of the korabi e I feel a strange sense of pride at having been partially responsible for this It doesn’t ht be close

The guards drag me fro leg I have to hold ht still have soh that seems less and less likely by the moment

I ht not make it out alive I knew that when I started, when the evacuations of the last of ht I’ve lived ht In some really fucked up way, this feels almost like a relief They’ll killNoJust sweet oblivion