Like most people who had little experience with cannons, wahsi tended to have an inflated idea of their effectiveness. The images did not change for several seconds, until the second televek cruiser appeared yet again, moving up into a high orbit above the planet, seeking an intercept course with voyager.
How innocent, how beautiful you appear, raised above the fortified debauchery engorged in the storeys below, languorous and composed in a shared and silent peace, secure in your soft citadel of sleep.
She dropped to her belly and, trying not to think about the fact that she was crawling through the incinerated remains of untold thousands of yuuzhan vong, advanced to the edge of the pit.