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Steel Beneath the Skin by Niall Teasdale5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() There were men in the bushes at the treeline. It would be my considerable pleasure.’Īneka sat in the doorway of the bunker watching the undergrowth about a hundred metres away. Pushing herself up from her position leaning against a desk, Parry smiled and unzipped the jumpsuit she was wearing. ‘Andromeda, would you be so kind as to demonstrate how to kill a couple of women?’ Hunter turned sharply to where Andromeda Parry was cleaning her long fingernails with a combat knife. The minefield around the bunker is still active…’ Another fifteen when she opened up with a mini-gun. ‘Sir… She used frag grenades on the barracks. ‘A thousand year old woman and an archaeologist have taken over our primary operations centre and armoury? Is it too much to ask that you remove them?’ Hunter’s throat had the red shade to it that people who knew him had learned to recognise as a sign that they should be elsewhere. ‘She’s holed up in the bunker with Narrows.’ His eyes darted from Hunter to the woman near him with the kind of nervous look a man got when he felt the messenger might end up strangled with his own entrails. ‘It’s the Jansen women, sir.’ The Humanity First soldier who had landed the job of explaining what had happened to Charles Hunter was not happy about it. ![]()
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