Carol Berlin Holbrook awoke with a start to the muted sound of automatic gunfire.
“Yay!” she said in the sudden euphoria of being rescued. Then she remembered about the Containment Protocol that Thadfield had told her about. She also remembered that if she stayed, he would soon show up with a squad of sentry robots, probably stun her, and she’d wake up on Thadfield’s ship on the way to who knows where. Whatever colonists were left behind would be dead, along with whoever had just now arrived to rescue them.
She ran to the door.
“Lurch! Let me out!” She yelled, pounding desperately.
