Board Thread:Fun and Games Forum/@comment-24510587-20160105194819/@comment-27404954-20160229040803

Siariks, quite frankly, didn't care about the mercenary's false bravado. Eliksni died and lived on their own merit, and if the mercenary wished to throw his life away, Siariks didn't especially care except for the loss of a capable gun to the task force.

As he thought this, the gate opened with a hiss of supercooled air. Arniks-2 sent out a blurt of warning binary from his augmitters, and Siariks patted it on his outer shell, as one might to do an Earthen dog to reassure it.

Siariks leaned forward to peer into the fog of steam and ice crystals, rifle in his bottom left hand.