5. The effect of impact on stationary objects
The Guild launched a surprise attack. The Starships were everywhere in the skies beyond, the klaxons shedding their lights in the halls, their screams drowning out all but Wina's strong voice requesting the captain's and first officer's immediate presences at the bridge. They'd cut their consultation and spun into the elevator. There was only red, Alex, and the deafening silence between them. She watched him through the side of her eyes; the demeanor ever serious to the point it was painful.
There was a horrendous shudder as the Starships breached the hulls, wall compartments, endangering all for Alvris Hamilton, for a little girl. Ten minutes. They only need hold against them for ten minutes and the Guild would withdraw. Ten minutes. She fell and stumbled into Alex. Her chest seized at the proximity, the violated space, and she gave a fearful look up at him. She was afraid of what she would see there, what she could already feel in the lack of his reaction. Ignored, this never happened. And she thought the quiet before had hurt…yet she didn't pull away until just before the doors opened.
The explosion of ships shook the Silvana, the Guild's power scattered its contents and disrupted all it touched, but Alex Rowe did not move.