Tika came for Delphi.

     She reached a vestibule where a series of hallways intersected.

     Guards ran down each of the hallways...

     coming for her. 

     She wore no armor while they all did...

     but she moved so much faster.

     She fired a weapon with each hand.

     The air all around her filled with weapons' fire.

     She dodged all of it.

     It was like she knew before they did when and where they were going to be and how they planned to attack.

     The vestibule filled with the bodies of the dead or dying.

     Tika let go a telepathic blast.

     The helmets the guards wore, the ones that were supposed to ward off telepathic blasts?

     Yeah, right.

     Those who didn't wear a helmet died instantly.

     Those with helmets, stunned.

     They were allowed to live up to thirty seconds longer.

     Tika moved so fast.

     A few of them managed to break out of their stupors long enough to offer some sort of half assed defense. 

     One shot for each one, and down they went.

     That last, armed cadre of guards?

     They'd started out about fifty.

     Within minutes, they were half that.

​     Tika continued for Delphi.

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