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"We're going to need more than comm lasers for that!" Rachel snapped. "Karen! Get back to the ship! She turned her attention back to her controls, cursing that the ship lacked armament. But then why would it have guns? There was no war in space. And they weren't meant to be visiting alien planets full of hostile life! There had to be SOMETHING though! What did the ship have that output energy? More than the communication array? Survey suite maybe? Rachel thought furiously. The spectrographs and lidar used lasers, but not particularly better than the comms. Maybe she was

"People. Tiny scaly people but people," Artoria offered, not blaming Meara for getting dazzled by the prospect of wielding honest-to-gods magic, "And maybe not friends of your thing if it waited until they were dead before it attacked us." She looked thoughtful in the magical light of the cave, assembling the start of an idea, "Well, unless we can scrounge up a third magic weapon, there isn't a lot I can add to killing this thing. Do you have a trick in that book to tie it down long enough for Ardan to stab it?" Meara thought a bit, shrugged her shoulders, and ventured