Chapter Fourteen
Turbinta: Ruins of Tribute
Zoak pushed aside the drunkenly hanging door to the bar. The interior of the bar lay in ruins like the rest of the city. His eyes quickly adjusted to the dim lighting. He climbed over a thick ceiling beam, and looked around the devastation.
Rain fell through large gaping holes in the ceiling. Shattered tables and chairs mixed with those that had miraculously survived undamaged. He wormed his way through the maze of debris, searching for Tallei.
He found her body near one corner. Pushing aside the table that had partially collapsed on her, he saw the evidence he’d been seeking – she had not died in the destruction of the city, but by a shot from a blaster. The death of his master did not free him from his assignment; he simply had an additiona
