They looked at the craters where the assassins had exploded as they died, the two rows where the dead Security beings lay covered, the torn wire, and the shrapnel-ripped buildings. They could not see the hilltop, where smoke trailed up from the N'Ran's launch site, and the warship Alex's blind-launched Goblins had flambéed was a radioactive cloud, drifting and contaminating its way inland.Four of them shared anger—how could this have happened? The other, Kyes, was trying to label what emotion he did feel. In all his years, no one had ever tried to harm him physically. Destroy his career and life—but that was in bloodless executive chambers.All of them were outraged. Who and why?The Kraas, hardly strangers to physical violence, were pure rage, but with something else behind it: the instinct of cunning."We want the bosses. This un's a conspiracy, not a buncha wildcats on a bust-out.""I agree," Kyes put in."The real bosses c'n wait," the thin one said. She had understood exactly what her sister was hinting.
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