COLD STEEL, BLEEDING HEARTS
Stay free and help everyone, and she’s a queen, ruling over life and death.
“I won’t do it,” Maya said to the mirror-door. “I won’t be your tool. And I won’t be a queen.”
“Then you’ll be a prisoner,” the Chairwoman replied.
The mirror-door shattered. It turned into a cloud of tiny, silver machines—nanobots. The swarm swept into the room. They didn’t attack; they tried to freeze her in place.
“Back up!” David yelled, swinging his bag at the swarm.
The machines ignored him, moving straight for Maya.