36-39: Street fighting (Patreon)

In the thick of the fighting, Lola keeps shooting, keeps pressing forward obediently. She's lost count of how many Troopers have been shot beside her, how many near-misses have sizzled her skin. The fear has become something euphoric: She wonders if she may perhaps be invulnerable.

Surging through the streets, the Storm Troopers invade every building and force every defended position. In every choke-point, a red-clad body lies; another Trooper who heedlessly followed her orders and her training onto the muzzle of a gun; her short life expended for the greater good of the Empress.

The survivors fight on, dwindling, but no less reckless.

They have nearly taken the settlement.