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Aron was not the only casualty of the strike. Roa Chong and a dozen more people were also caught up in it, though, unlike Aron, they were less lucky. They didn't have any bodies to bury. Because electrical equipment, like cameras and other monitoring devices, had been knocked out before the strike, many of the deaths were only confirmed because there had been eyewitnesses. What must it have been like to see someone just vaporise before your eyes…?

It wasn't the first time being attacked directly for most of the people at the base, but it had been a while since the last attack and there was something eerie with how silently this one had been conducted that it left an anxious feeling in the air.

During this time, it was the more Mossy parts of me that got us through it all while the more Lachlany parts struggled to even breath.