Chapter Thirteen
Erik’s exoskeleton stomped through a pile of discarded bot legs at a dead sprint, crunching them down into a rough path. Jia trailed right behind him in her own exoskeleton.
A flashing indicator marked her position on the side of his faceplate heads up display, but she was barely showing up on his rear camera feed, the dark coloring of the exo blending in with the unforgiving inky darkness.
There were no lights in this part of Zantini’s range, and the distant illumination coming off towers and nearby buildings wasn’t enough to do much more than suggest the shape of nearby obstacles. He switched over to infrared, where she was even less obvious.
“Every time I get in this thing, I’m impressed,” he admitted before switching to low-light mode. “These babies are faster than
