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A COUPLE OF PEOPLE further down the corridor tried to make a run for it.
The soldiers didn’t shoot, so Moshi tried to run as well, but his head was still reeling from the sound of the explosion and the stinging pain in his arm. In the dark, he crashed into someone he hadn’t noticed.
One of the Allion guards shouted, “Stand back.”
His colleagues came away from the stairwell and fanned out over the corridor. People pressed to the sides. Moshi ended up with his back against the wall, which still felt cold.
They were guards from the First Division, the elite troops that Sep Kerakis had taken to occupy the station and who provided his personal security. They walked down the corridor, scanning the scene with their reflective visors that were not unlike those of the hypertechs.
Their helm
