Suarez screamed. The golden light left his eyes. He collapsed, human again, gasping.
“We don’t need you to kill,” Economos interjected, sliding a tablet across the table. On it, a man in a general’s uniform smiled. “General Mateo Suarez. He’s a Butterfly.”
“I’m not him,” Kurtis whispered.
“I rebuild transmissions,” Kurtis said, sipping black coffee. “I don’t kill people.”
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“Left at the junction. The device is in the main hangar.”
Kurtis kept walking. “You won’t,” he said, voice low. “Because if you shoot me, the blood shorts the resonator’s pressure plate. The whole hive detonates. You know the design. You read it in my father’s files.” Suarez screamed
Suarez hesitated. That was the opening.