It’s difficult to be afraid when your mind and body have been so augmented that you can no longer feel pain, and although Figgis was outnumbered he crawled into a scrape in the ground beneath his enemies’ transport.
Whistling soundlessly, he attached one of the limpet mines from his belt then snake-wriggled onto the shelter of the one stubby tree the oasis boasted.
Another entity might have felt a stirring of pity when the slavers herded the children into their transpo just before it exploded.
But it’s difficult to be human when your emotions have been scientifically scraped away…
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