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The guard eyed me suspiciously.
He was too dumb to realize what I’d done.
Too dumb by half.
“Why are you standing like that?” he said.
“Standing like what?” I said, keeping my hand tucked behind my back.
“Like that. With your hand behind your back.”
Yikes. Not so dumb after all.
“I’m not standing here with my hand behind my back,” I quipped.
“Yes, you are.”
“No, I’m not.”
“Yes, you are.”
“Where’s your buddy?” I said. “The smart one. Let him do the thinking for you, huh? You’re not making any sense.”
The guard pursed his lips and if I didn’t know any better, he had either summoned the memory of the taste of the sour fruit lemdox or he was growing even more suspicious.
Or he was constipated.
One of those for sure.
“Show me your hand,” he said.
I extended my hand to him.
“Not that one. The other one.”
“Okay.”
I tucked my first back behind my back, pretended to drop the phaser into it, and then brought out my other hand that still held the phaser.
“You just switched hands!” he said.
“No I didn’t, look,” I said.
I opened the hand facing him.
A small dexterous action and the phaser was suddenly in my fingers.
“Oh,” the guard said.
Then, belatedly realizing what it was, his eyes bulged in surprise.
I fired at his chest at point-blank range.
Even for a phaser, this distance could be dangerous.
His arms flew to either side and his body jittered on the spot before collapsing to the floor.
His buddy rounded the back of the shuttlecraft, still in the process of tucking himself in from his restroom break, when his eyes fell to his buddy on the floor.
