"What the heck do they mean by plead our cases?" Karishma asked, turning to the girl behind her. "You guys killed that thing, awesome job on that, by the way, so why is anyone deciding our fate?"
Her hands opened and closed on empty air, and she couldn't seem to keep her mouth shut. Everyone else on the quad was silent, but the silence made the whole ordeal much more solemn and frightening than it already had been. If she didn't keep jabbering, she was going to fall into a pit of fear that she didn't have the energy to climb back out