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Some of the fighters-those few who had survived the explosion-had grabbed chairs, fallen shock rods or anything else they could grab and were crowding toward whatever had breached the wall. Fix saw them fall. One. By one. By one.-pg.441 chpt.16

And in a moment of sudden crystal clarity, Fix put the pieces to all of this together.The nickname Chiba had given to the alien-the Nightmare Kid-might have been more apt than he knew. From the size ofthe newcomer, and the superb combat skills it demonstrated, and the comparatively smaller size and more naïve skills of the Nightmare Kid, Fix realized that he had been fighting just that. A kid. A younger, less experienced, less dangerous version of the true nightmare that was slaughtering the most skilled fighters in the solar system. This creature-mother or father had come looking for its kid. It had attacked a whole space station full of people to protect its own.-pg.443-444 chpt.16