Chapter 176

"What? What's wrong?" Selene crouched to her knees, grabbing her head, her brain was picking apart its own nerves with a pair of tweezers.

Jodie kept asking what was wrong. Falkner was leading their healer deeper into territory to tend to the injured leaving the three women alone.

Vanessa felt her brain draw in, like a child in a fetal position, then it repelled against whatever was trying to enter it, like a built-in defense mechanism. In a moment, she understood.

"Sonic sound." Jodie clutched her assault rifle tighter, eyes widening then narrowing, in anger.

"Animals have sensitive hearing. But they are also animals, how can Desmond expect to beat us without damaging his own men?"

The answer was insidious. It made Calvin's betrayal paler in aspect.

"We have nothing against sound attack?" This oversight, the slight underestimation, was going to cost them lives. Hundreds of lives.

Energy surged through Vanessa, she rose, two inches, then three, then enough her feet were level with