Eyes of a Tragedy

A few Zerglings. A well-placed battery. That's all Kerrigan needed: the base before her was completely overwhelmed by unexpected and sudden betrayal. The bodies littered the ground as she strode across the battlefield. One step at a time, her heels digging against the solid mud--

Clink.

She leaned down, picked up the communications device, and crushed it firmly within her palm. Six minutes.

The scrap hit the ground with the quiet snap of her wrist. River, she sent, Continue to attack. Their defenses won't last long.

( In fact, the Raider defenses were already starting to give. )

[[ post one of two; dialogue taken from StarCraft: Brood War Zerg mission 5, 'True Colors'. NFB, NFI, OOC-okay! ]]

"You boys should really learn to play nice with each other."

"Nearly. I still need a substantial cache of resources in order to build up my primary hive clusters. I'm wondering if you gentlemen wouldn't mind going on a fuel raid for me?"

"I'm thinking that we should pay the Kel-Morian Combine a little visit. Moria is one of the largest resource nodes in the sector. If you can bypass their defenses, and steal enough resources from them, we'll be able to afford a full-scale assault on Korhal."

Kerrigan smiled a razor-sharp smile as she shut off the comms.

"Do you think they expect anything, my Queen?" Duran asked, respectful as always.

"Of course," she said, "They aren't stupid. They're simply siding with the evil they know over the evil they don't... they just don't know what it'll cost."

( Down on Moria... )

[[ some dialogue stolen from StarCraft BroodWar Zerg mission 3, 'The Kel-Morian Combine'. NFB, NFI, OOC-okay, the usual ]]

"My Queen."

Duran's voice ran as a niggling interruption of Kerrigan's own thoughts, disconnected as they had been. River had returned safely and in one piece, but she had known better than to expect that the visit hadn't thrown her for a loop. There was also the matter of Adama, of course-- eventually, she was going to have to find him... but not until after the slaughter had completed. And right now, it seemed to run in some danger of ever being completed.

( She blinked once... )

Barely five minutes into his explanation, she was already barking River's name across the mindlink.

Sarah Kerrigan was really getting tired of these motherfucking rebel Zerg in her motherfucking sector.

[ for the infested adopted daughter ]