Renie stepped back into the shadows and raised her whispering voice so it wouldcarry. 'Who could ever imagine this would happen, dear?'is what my mother said. But as far as Sellars could tell, during the brief moments of investigation he had snatchedbetween skirmishes with the Other, most of his small company still seemed to be alive within thenetwork. Windhowled even faster across the yard, bringing a horizontal blizzard of grain dust.
As a flurry of sparks streamed from the wing, Renie had a frightening memory of thelast Ares space mission, the one with the faulty shielding that had burned up on reentry. Calliope Skouros did not say it like she meant it, and to avoid anyaccusations of subtlety, she curled her lip as well. For all weknow, some horrible earwig the size of a bus may come around the corner any second and pinch allour heads off, and _we'll_ be dead, too. Hetried to summon another name, but could only think of the madman who had dragged him through thepalaces and deserts of Mars; he hoped Nandi had not met him.
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