"Pathetic," Caspian murmured, toeing the corpse of an ISSD trooper aside. "All this security... for me?"
A low chuckle rumbled in his chest.
Then—
A whisper of movement.
A shift in the air pressure.
Caspian's head snapped up.
"Finally."
She stood at the corridor's end.
Circe.
The woman who had caged him.
Caspian's lips curled into a feral grin. "Ah. You."
Circe showed no reaction.
"You remember me," she observed.
Caspian exhaled sharply, rolling his shoulders. "Hard to forget the bitch who stuffed me in a cage."
Circe's fingers twitched. The air around her warped, reality itself bending to her will.
"You were a rabid dog," she said, her voice colder than space. "I put you down."
Caspian threw back his head and laughed. "And now I'm back."
"Not for long."
She moved.