Death, and three of his friends, ride past the observation window.

On the outside.

He pauses long enough to wave.

Gordon lunges through the door, crowbar in hand, and immediately trips over one of the rats. As he pushes himself to his feet and makes a muttered apology, the door vanishes behind him.

Damn it. And he was sure he'd seen that wretch in the suit on board the Borealis, too.

[Millitimed to right after the big booms.]

The last time Obi-Wan felt anything like this, nearly two thousand million voices had just cried out in terror and immediately fallen silent. It's the purely physical component of the blast that actually knocks him out of his seat, but it wouldn't have been able to do but for the psychic clobbering.


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