Chapter 10
There were about ten women, all armed with stun-rifles, bursting through a door at the back of the room. They were wearing the loose white robes that were common garments in the Holy City, but they had hitched them up and tied them behind their backs so they wouldn’t hinder rapid motion. Each woman had a determined scowl on her face that promised to brook no opposition.
The guard who’d been guiding Wayne and John reached for his own gun as soon as he saw them, but he was far too slow; the women with their rifles at the ready fired before he could draw his weapon. Rays of yellow energy blazed out of several rifle barrels, striking the guard squarely in the chest. He fell to the ground, temporarily paralyzed.
Wayne, John, and the other men in the room choosing women to “redeem”
