As Tatehan walked to his room, members of the Red Crest Clan looked at him in disbelief.
They had surely watched his fall on the news; watched him fight Commander Cherak high above the city.
He wondered how the news drones had managed to record so high in the sky, capturing every moment of the battle, even when he'd summoned the Devastator Hand Cannon and fired point-blank into Cherak's chest.
When he thought about it more carefully, he realized that by the time he'd used the pistol and delivered those devastating punches, they were already halfway down. When Cherak had first grabbed him and jerked him upward, they'd climbed so high that Tatehan had almost been pulled out of Mars's atmosphere entirely. Up there, he could barely breathe, and the air was too thin for the drones to reach.
The drones had only caught the descent—the final, brutal moments of the fight.
