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- Gibbs’s snort echoed over the battlesuit’s speakers. “Are those your last words?”
- “Not quite,” she said. She wiped a wet strand of hair off her face and took a deep breath. “Patriotic! Crustacean! Houdini!”
- The bright lenses flickered. Just for a moment. Loud clacks came from the ammo hopper. Across the armor, two dozen small panels opened at the shoulders and hips and around the waist, each one the size of a matchbook. Four of them popped up around the thick collar the helmet sat on. A gleaming bolt sat under each one.
- The cannon pointed at her trembled but didn’t fire. She stepped back and Gibbs growled inside the armor. “What the hell have you done?” he yelled.
- “A subroutine I wrote a while ago to save time,” Danielle said. “Back when I had to do most of this myself.”
- The steel fingers flexed, and he snarled. It was a rasping sound through the speaker. She imagined him trying to activate the stunners again and again with the optical mouse.
- She took another step back. “Cerberus is preparing for disassembly. The weapons systems are offline,” she told him. “You can’t turn any of them back on without a hard reboot.”
- Excerpt From Ex-Purgatory, pg 600-601
- Peter Clines
- https://books.apple.com/us/book/ex-purgatory/id676938479
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