The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)

by Matt Dinniman

The alien guy stopped, holding his hands up in the air in the now-confirmed-to-be-universal gesture of “I surrender.”

“My name is Lexis. I apologize for the inconvenience, but Syndicate security is on its way. You are being hunted. I am here to take you to safety.”

Lexis laughed. Her scanner beeped, indicating a security shuttle was about to land. “So, I guess it worked out for everybody.” She looked down at the dead sac. She thought of the poor cat, and what they were going to do to him. She shuddered. “Well, almost everybody.”