บท 80: Chapter 80: Pursuit

"Put me down. I can run - "

A bullet laser blast singed past her.

"No, don't put me down. Don't stop. Run faster. Faster," she screamed, when another blast narrowly missed her, and then she tried to climb over his shoulder and down his front. She only managed to hit his chin with her knee.

"Still, woman," he grunted and tightened his grip.

"Go, go, go."

Bouncing around over his shoulder, while he moved with disturbing speed, made speech impossible. Fear made it possible.

She frantically slammed her fists against his back. "Ouch, run faster, dammit."

Another laser beam blasted above their heads.

"They're gaining on us. They're shooting at us. Faster, alien." She tried to kick him into greater speed, but he held her legs clamped against him with his arms. The world already whirred past them but he couldn't outrun a bullet. "Faster, I'm not bulletproof like you - " She bounced again and the wind was knocked out of her.