Tides of Light (2009)
“She enjoyed the mad dashes she could perform, racing from one fleeing band of panicked Noughts to the next, chopping and blasting and cutting them. It was a consummation of her plan, and a great joy.
Yet vagrant impulses shot through her. She felt glancing pain as the Noughts died. She suffered a momentary trembling fever as they fled in fear.
This unsettled her, slowed her arms fractionally, veered her aim. So Beq’qdahl cried, <You’re overshooting! Correct!> <Yes, yes,> Quath replied, hoping none of the podia noticed how shaken she was.
<Pursue them!> came the joint cry of the armed podia. Quath joined their rush.
Up ragged ridgelines, through gray mech ruins and gutted green forests, and down onto the smashed steppes of this fractured place, they harried the stupid, witless Noughts.
Quath’s adroit plan had worked. Her captured Nought, when released in the area where the largest packs of Noughts were thought to prowl, immediately sought out its fellows.
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