Jeka reached out with both hands to catch the shrunken girl, but in doing so, she lost track of the gouts of flame that still spewed across their area. She screamed in Interlac as the flames ripped down her side, about a third of the way down her body. She hit the ground and rolled until she'd suffocated the flames, but her transuit was ruined and she hurt.

"$%&# $@&$ &@%#!!!" she ripped her Legion flight ring off her finger and thrust it and Cassie out at Chris, the nearest person. "You're going to have to do it. The flight ring's easy to use, put it on and go!"

Chris might need to put the ring on his pinkie finger, but they were easy enough for Brainy's monkey to use, much less an adult human.