“I didn’t want anyone to get hurt.”
The frightened guard looked from her to her companion and back, not comprehending what had happened. XXX She stripped off her backpack and tossed it into the center of the road. ‘Remember what happened to Hank,’ she reminded herself. The ground erupted next to his foot, making him jump. The death toll had been terrible. They heard another distant ‘crack’. Jeff looked up at the town. She played her ‘Goddess’ role to the hilt, having had lots of practice in other cultures back on old Earth. “They aren’t shooting at me…
“Besides,” she continued, sounding bored again, “I can’t be killed with a bullet.”
“I beg to differ, Goddess,” Jeff explained as though he was talking to a child, “but I happened to see your revered
