“Rukmini went first. She moved with the fluid precision of a woman who had been trained by the Indian Armed Forces before the draft and whose muscle memory was not Game-enhanced but Earth-forged, the particular competence of a soldier who had done this in training a thousand times and who did it now for real with the same mechanical efficiency. She fired as she moved — short bursts, controlled, the energy carbine punching holes in the cover that the Gumalagians were using.”