​     A smaller but much stronger force field ​surrounded Katy and Gramps right at the center of the compound. It was Claudia's version of a safe room, a single space packed with supplies and weaponry and, of course, a hot tub. This force field could withstand an assault a thousand times more intense than a nuclear blast.  

     Which was, more or less, what Claudia was about to unleash.  

     She threw every explosive device she had at Tindriss the moment Tindriss broke through the outer force field. 

​     Claudia had no nuclear devices, she hated the radiation, but she threw everything else. She wanted to see if anything would have any effect on Tindriss whatsoever, and, well, it did. The blasts didn't take Tindriss apart, but they did halt her forward momentum. The blasts, there were hundreds of them, annihilated Adam's entire compound just like that. The heat from the detonating missiles was such that the buildings making up the compound melted as much as they came apart. Adam had called this compound home for thirty years. 

​     I will miss it, Claudia thought. 

​     Nexus moment, plus one hour. 

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