The intruder came closer.
Ted saw that the person was a Square, seemingly completely unprepared for the task. Her astonishment gave him plenty of time to shoot her.
Then he walked out to see if there were more, but it had just been one woman.
Tom was dead.
Well, that did not matter half as much as the old curmudgeon would have probably wanted to believe. The high cor could manage without him.
What was a bit more mysterious was the fact that Mrs. Madorn had underestimated him this badly. Not like he wanted to complain about it, but her defenses were flimsy and her attacks laughably cosmetic. What was it, then, that had caused her to play her cards like this? It did not seem feasible. She was intelligent, after all.
