Thief And Accelerator Coils!

Camila turned her back to hand a sack of potatoes across the cloth to an insectoid miner.

…The scavenger exploded out of the alley in a silent blur!

Its wire-thin claw flashed out like a striking snake, hooked the drawstring of the canvas pouch, slit the apron pocket with a hidden micro-blade and tore the seeds free in one smooth practiced motion.

Camila gasped and spun around, clutching at her chest. 

"My seeds! He took my seeds!"

The thief was already gone. 

It wheeled on its digitigrade feet, shoved into the crowded avenue, ducked between the four legs of a towering Vorn and bolted for the dark winding mouth of the residential maintenance tunnels fifty meters away.

"Thief!" Harper yelled, lunging after it, but a solid wall of alien bodies closed in front of her. "Stop that rat!"

Chloe moved.

The stone floor under her boots cracked in a spiderweb of fractures as her Blood Sovereign strength detonated through her legs.