Star Force: Fiddlesticks (SF65) (11 page)
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Authors: Aer-ki Jyr
When she got up top she came to an empty room that had
a sheer glass wall rather than a balcony, meaning she’d guessed wrong and the
snipers were another room over. She reached out with her Ikrid and put them to
sleep, along with as many others as she was within range of as her
comm
activated.
“Archon beware,” a Bsidd voice said, coming from one
of those holed up in the commons, “there are too many lizards. Do not try to
come to our aid. Turn back and try for targets of opportunity.”
“Not part of the plan,” Larissa said, walking up to
the glass and looking out over top the swarm of lizards and seeing the columns
and upturned tables where the Bsidd were hiding and fighting out of. “How
damaged are you guys?”
“Most have armor damage, but only three have burns.”
“Get ready to shoot disabled targets.”
“Where?”
Larissa’s lip curled up in a silent snarl. “Right in
the middle of them, to your northwest.”
“Do not, you will be killed.”
“I’m a mage,” she reminded him, pinging the location
on the battlemap where she wanted them to be ready to attack. “Get ready. Shoot
the ones on the ground, but don’t move towards them or you’ll get caught up in
my disable.”
The Bsidd didn’t argue any further, instead responding
with a ready ping followed by a slew of others as the rest of them acknowledged
that they were in position.
Larissa gently set her hands against the glass,
stepping back with her left foot and readying a combination of Yetu, Lachka,
and bioshield.
“Fiddle me this,” she whispered, blowing out the glass
ahead of her, running a step forward, and launching herself out the window and
over the heads of the lizards below, landing in the midst of them and emitting
a huge Fornax field that dropped hundreds to the ground twitching
uncontrollably.
