"Pathetic," Caspian murmured, toeing the corpse of an ISSD trooper aside. "All this security... for me?"
A low chuckle rumbled in his chest.
Then—
A whisper of movement.
A shift in the air pressure.
Caspian's head snapped up.
"Finally."
She stood at the corridor's end.
Circe.
The woman who had caged him.
Caspian's lips curled into a feral grin. "Ah. You."
Circe showed no reaction.
"You remember me," she observed.
Caspian exhaled sharply, rolling his shoulders. "Hard to forget the bitch who stuffed me in a cage."
Circe's fingers twitched. The air around her warped, reality itself bending to her will.
"You were a rabid dog," she said, her voice colder than space. "I put you down."
Caspian threw back his head and laughed. "And now I'm back."
"Not for long."
She moved.
One moment she stood twenty feet away. The next, she was before him, her palm slamming into his chest.
"Graviton Burst."
The world imploded.
