Chapter 34
March – 3,390 BC
Earth: Crash Site
Colonel Mikhail Mannuki’ili
MIKHAIL
The worse consequence of firing his pulse pistol at Jamin was not the fact he'd missed—he was glad he had missed, the man was unconscious and to shoot him would have been reprehensible no matter how furious he was at the time—but the fact he'd wasted what was probably his next to the last shot shooting at the empty air. The angry red light blinked faster every time he powered the weapon up, but he needed to practice. The more he practiced, the more his muscles remembered what his mind refused to tell him.
He slipped it back into his hip-holster and then pulled it out and aimed it again at a series of rocks lined up along a log.
"Boom," he said.
He didn't fire it of course. If it was his last shot, he
