A Question of Dominion, Pt 4

The Corvus Operatives shuffled the last of the hostages into the station’s main security chamber, which was more than spacious enough to hold the few hundred of them. Though it was far from comfortable, it was perhaps the most defensible spot in the entire array.

Dozens of them even picked up a few of the Gerveaux standard issue rifles that were locked up in the chamber’s armory, and guarded the entrance from the inside.

Once the doors slid all the way shut behind the last one, Freya reopened comms to the rest of their assault squad.

“Freya reporting,” she began. “Can confirm, our primary objective was not among the hostages. Which I really don’t like. There’s something off about this.”

“Agreed,” Lucifer replied. “Although it’s possible that he was identified by the Tyreia, and taken captive elsewhere. I’m not…”

“Luci?”

“Hold on, Raijin just sent me some new info.”