Location:Seven Peaks — West Yard, Command Center, Residential Quarter, Terrace
Date/Time:TC1857.01.12 – TC1857.01.14
The tailboard was cold enough that Raven's palm stuck to it for half a second when she let go, and she stood in the west yard with her hand stinging and read page two before anybody had touched a strap.
Somebody wanted to unload. She could feel them wanting to.
This measure requires the user to close inside the animal's reach, and it will kill some of the people who use it. Do not distribute it as safe. Distribute it as the only thing that works.
The same sentence twice. Lin Yue had written it out a second time in full rather than trust a reader to have finished the first one, and Raven had known her for years and had never seen her repeat herself on paper.
Under the pitch cloth at the front of the cart, four carcasses. Behind them, wrapped separately and better, a sub-commander who had turned away thirty-one volunteers because they wanted it too much.
"Ma'am."
