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A loud snapping noise above her caused her head to snap up.

Junoa was prone against the wall, pinned to it by some kind of glowing green rod, driven through her by an alien standing behind her. The alien's skin looked smooth, like a pink version of Asari skin, but the clothing she wore was bright green.

She felt time slow again, as she reached slowly, ponderously for her weapon next to Althaea's body, too slow to stop the alien reaching up with impossible speed to snap Junoa's neck, stopping the soldier's struggle as Eunoe watched in horror. It seemed to her that the alien glowed with an impossible green glow, especially her neck, like something out of ancient mythology, and some distant part of her mind even had time to register that if the alien had been Asari, she would have been a child.

Then she felt something on her helmet, and saw her weapon crushed somehow under a bare alien limb.

Time returned to normal speed, and she froze.

"Don't move," a voice said in perfect female Turian, seeming to echo impossibly in her mind. Then something pressed down, an unbearable pressure inside her skull, causing pain in places that should not have ever felt pain. It hurt—

The darkness was merciful.

(Mass Divergence, Chapter 1)