She only had a moment to prepare to fight them. Perhaps if she'd taken it to do something other than torment her son, she'd have had time to create another device like the one that had pinned then all down - perhaps something to just kill them all this time instead of making them witness his torture and their upcoming demise.
But her son was writhing on the floor, dying. She didn't dare risk losing that, not after thinking she'd already lost him once.
So she tapped on the controls to his torture device, causing a forcefield bubble to spring up around him, attaching the device to her side.
Okay, gonna do subthreads now for each part!
She only had a moment to prepare to fight them. Perhaps if she'd taken it to do something other than torment her son, she'd have had time to create another device like the one that had pinned then all down - perhaps something to just kill them all this time instead of making them witness his torture and their upcoming demise.
But her son was writhing on the floor, dying. She didn't dare risk losing that, not after thinking she'd already lost him once.
So she tapped on the controls to his torture device, causing a forcefield bubble to spring up around him, attaching the device to her side.
It was all the time she had.