Were the heretics really going to believe the preposterous claim that they could break the shields? Jedao said, “Wake up, that’s not a standard –” Cheris spotted the incoming object in the scan summary. “That’s a bomb!” Scan said. “Don’t understand the trajectory. It’s going to catch more of them than us in the blast radius.” Anomalies never worked in your favor. Especially since the five-swarm was moving toward the bomb, not away from it. The bomb went off. It did not, in fact, catch any of the Kel swarm in its radius. It did, however, encompass the entirety of the five-swarm, in a sphere of
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