14/05/2026 00:03

---

I can see what you were doing. Ahead, the leadingpolice escort pulled off to one side of a guarded steel gate. What's the specific subject matter? Robinson asked. Escobedo, stay here.

As one group of twomoved forward, the other protected them, overwatched in militaryparlance, by searching for and engaging any targets that presentedthemselves. The patrols chatted amiably enough across the river despite thecertainty on the part of all concerned that the area would seefighting in no more than a Terra Novan month. Why do I put myself through this? she asked of no one inparticular. The bodies, like those of Cruzand his two remaining men, were covered with a mix of dust, minuteparticles of pul