Tales of the Liberty Guild: Herakles & Alice
Laura Mirsky for Doctor Erika Van Zandt
Dr. Van Zandt is a brilliant but narcissistic doctor who followed in her father's footsteps in his experiments to deliberately give people superpowers. She has determined that Undine and Alice both have superpowers from her father's experiments and wants to use them to get some for herself.
- female adult
And now, with his cellular probe, I will unlock the secret of your interface and take your powers for my own. Chances are you will be left a puddle of protoplasm in the process, but you cannot make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
Save your energy and your oxygen. The force field is not air permeable. You cannot grow out of it and you cannot shrink out of it. And if by some chance you survive the cellular extraction, you won’t have any oxygen to breathe if you use it all up trying to bust out.
Those will be most unusual last words! (laughs)
