"Urgh!"
Gideon grunted loudly in his sleep and rolled over, causing Kel to flinch.
"What do you mean 'saved' you?" she questioned, lowering her voice.
Taegus remained silent for several moments before speaking again.
"It was supposed to be a normal border patrol, but we were ambushed," he said softly. "Even some members of our own squad turned on us."
Kel listened as the boy went on to describe a gruesome scene.
While the twenty-man squad was preparing to make camp one night, a sudden group of unidentified soldiers swarmed into their camp. The Pandreian soldiers quickly moved into a defensive formation and managed to hold the attackers at bay for quite a while.
But the real damage started when three of the Pandreians began slashing at their own comrades.