MILO’S POV

Our presentation of the weapons for Operation Holy Water via the double tap method had some pretty mixed results. Maaka and I demonstrated the freeze gun, which was really a modified squirt gun we found in a blown out box store in the city, sanitized until it was free of impurities, and filled with supercooled water that only got to subzero temperatures with the application of a salt/ice bath. Maaka shot the gun at my feet, freezing me in place and giving me a second of ...