38 - 19/20 - Can Use a Shredder

Aloth handed me a shredder and began carefully checking his own with the slow, practiced ease of a person who had done this many times before.

<What about me?> Estrid said.

(...)

<Shoot, Aximili, shoot!> I screamed at myself. <Shoot!>

I fired. Did not even know I had, did not realize I had made the decision.

I felt the warmth of the weapon in my hand.

Saw the beam incinerate the stage floor where Visser Three had been just seconds before.

Miss!

No, not a miss. I had waited too long. I had let the moment pass.