The moment the guy hit the ground, Mara was flying towards me and I found myself being lifted off the ground and flung away.
I thought she wanted to finish him off or something when the ground near the supposedly unconscious guy suddenly collapsed into a crater, its size large enough to cover where I had been and also where Mara was.
"We have to leave, Captain…" Mara whispered.
"What's happening with him?"
"It's one of our instinctive defensive abilities that my family has trained us in. If any of us is knocked unconscious, we create a gravitational bubble around us that crushes anything inside it. While that happens, we're practically invulnerable as even laser weapons would have their paths diverted. If you don't kill us immediately, you'll need to wait until we regain consciousness again to try again."
"So your brother…"
"He's doing that right now, yes."
"But that's fine right? He's unconscious?"
