Chapter Five
In two steps and half a second, Tina had backed away from the door and had jumped inside the workshop.
Just in time. A white-hot beam of plasma hit the outside wall next to the door. Its blinding light lit up the yard and the inside of the workshop—where she could see that the intruder had pulled drawers out of the cabinet that held boxes with smaller items: clips, connectors, chips and that sort of thing.
Tina pulled down the shutter behind her, knowing that the next beam might well hit the door and would simply vaporise it. In fact she didn't understand why they hadn't already done that. Maybe it was just a warning, although there was never anything “just” about plasma guns. Especially not this one. It sounded suspiciously like a Q-blaster. Where had these criminal bandit
