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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:01 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:06 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:23 am
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:57 am
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. . . said something I couldn't hear, something about Peter. As well. I thrust the sword away with my boot, and began binding up the more obvious wounds, using up all the hypo-mercury compression prostheses in the kit. I upbraided myself for not searching the corpses behind the compound, because I'd have found kits, if I could have stomached looking for them. I'd slid out my laser scalpel and cut strips of cloth from my gravity armor's outer trapment, and bandaged the spots I'd seen left, sprinkled some water on her brow from the canteen, then took my guilty indulgence of waiting here, exhausted, for some minutes. I'd be safe in this rubble from the low flying beagle-ornithopters from which the snipers might spot me with their pinky trebuchets. Obviously, that's why this girl, Peter's sister, I knew not her name, had chosen it to hide. I'd have a worry free moment, too, from undetonated mustard pits. One of them claimed my buddy, and I intended to stay mad about it for a long, long time. I pressed the button on my cyber-canteen, and stirred it a while, then sipped the oily gin fizz it mixed for me. Canteen gin has a tincture of a diesel odor, but one welcomes it like ambrosia nonetheless. I only realized too late that I needed coffee more, so I poured the gin on the girl's scratches. At least she was reviving a bit, and I'd rinsed the canteen out; perhaps she'd want a . . .
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:13 pm
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. . . utter helplessness of her position becomes clearer to her. The heavy mercury-compression patch, designed for someone three times her size, reduces her mobility considerably more than the mere wounds. I remembered the other side of the compound, the corpses, the nightmare. Reluctantly I admitted to myself that the opportunity to salvage a jet pack from the bodies of the fallen probably should not be wasted. Even a damaged unit, one with only two rotors, or even just one, would help her stay afoot, if she would take the pains to learn it's subtle flight control logic. "Forget the sword, . . . " I had to think of a lie fast. I didn't want her trying to fend for herself. I could only imagine her hurting herself, or likely me, and accomplishing very little besides. "It couldn't be that sentimental," I asked, "being your dad's? It would only slow us down. I've got to find you a spitz . . . and you've got to learn to pilot it, maybe even it's gunnery too . . ." I shook my head at the idea of trusting this nymph, Azure, with the battery of lotus grenades on an admiral-spitz. The ornithopters had nothing like it, and they had leveled this whole block. Maybe there'd be a lighter model to . . . . to "salvage". I cringed at the idea of assorting that heap of bodies and ordinance, maybe Azure could . . .
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...validate her abilities, so as to confirm whether it would be worthwhile to search for one. As though she read his mind she grabs his hand, saying, "I can pilot one...my dad taught me. Granted, I only used them in training, but I was as good as any of my fathers students. That sword of his is a key to where he hid two that he built specially for myself and brother. They play off each other. He told me mine was lighter and faster than any created, with speed and precision to rival any out there. The other is heavier, with more armor and able to take as much punishment as can be thrown at it, as well as more powerful weapons. I was waiting because my brother was to meet me here so we could recover them. If you would help me, I'm sure he would allow you to use his...if you yourself are capable of it?" She looks at him with a mixture of pleading and incredulity, as though wanting his help but not sure if he could, or would, provide it. The spell was suddenly broken...
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