(?) Outrageous and Disrespectful
In the end, the pilot of that crashed Liberator gunship—Gao Lanlan—had fired every single one of her flechette rounds, and every one of them had hit its mark. But she still hadn't managed to kill a single demon. She hadn't even wounded one!
Then, once the cockpit canopy had been thrown fully open and smoke poured inside, she hadn't even had time to make out what her enemy looked like or instinctively reach for a fresh magazine. All she managed was a startled cry before her furious assailant grabbed her by the back of the collar and dragged her headfirst out of her seat.
Of course!
Though she'd been dragged out, she hadn't ended up being ravaged, abused, or beaten by the cruel Warp Daemons. They hadn't skewered her on a rack for a whole-person barbecue, or chopped her into pieces and kicked her head around like a ball. Instead, she'd been dragged viciously several streets away to a relatively quiet building, then flung onto a dirty but fairly soft bed. As she screamed, someone had yanked down her blood-soaked pants.
The reason she'd been treated that way, and hadn't been hacked to death by the Warp Daemons on the spot, wasn't because the demons had shown mercy. Nor was it because they'd found her young and pretty and had something unspeakable in mind. The one she'd inexplicably shot a whole magazine at, who had then dragged her out of the gunship cockpit before it burned down, wasn't some terrifying Warp Daemon at all. It was a black-faced, even more terrifying little girl!
That was right!
The one who had kindly saved Gao Lanlan's life, only to get shot at in return, was none other than Annie Bonnie, who had personally rushed over to reinforce the