"A crowd stands outside the safe house on Anselm, the people shifting and jostling and craning their necks for a chance to see blood. Pandora pushes past the onlookers and through the battered safe house door, which had been blasted open by a concussive grenade half an hour ago. Slabs of flesh cling to a wall above an almost unrecognizable corpse. The ex-Dominion weapons engineer. The deserter. The man she had promised to keep safe. His wife and daughter huddle nearby, bloody and trembling. Both of them are alive. Not by accident. The daughter's arms are gone below the elbows, the raw stumps carefully dressed by the same men who crippled her. The wife's face has been slashed and disfigured to leave scars that only the most expensive nanite surgery will heal."
-Read the full story over at Starcraft2.com in the link below
And if Starcraft 2 lore is not your thing, everyone can appreciate 2 minutes of modified Thor rampage which Blizzard includes along with the short story.
Thanks to sclegacy for the video embed
Links
Starcraft2.com - Short Story: Collateral Damage
