The lights at the loading bay were still on as they finished loading a large cargo lorry. Guards were everywhere around the vehicle watching everythin..., well almost everything. They were not looking up which was where I was. I was dropping down between loaders and took boxes with a grav tractor gun and used a auto hoist to lift me up.I had over one full pallet of the new sat link comps. They were top of the line and worth a million credits. I checked and scanned every box in case they had put. Neutered before he was old enough to want sex, the horse didn't even know what it was.But he still had keen animal senses.The horse had been aware that something very strange was happening to the stud steed behind him, something that the gelded appaloosa could not understand, but which, he sensed, was a real treat for that unaltered horse.He didn't know what he was missing, but he sensed damned well that he was missing something.Jake felt skittish and nervous, himself. Although he didn't know. If some fool in the bridge guardunit saw the name and took offense there could be a problem. The regularmilitary hated the Amazons anyway. Regardless of how formidable they wereas warriors, they had also been fifth columnists. Many had joined themilitaries of the world in order to be in position to do the most damageon G-Day. Often the brightest graduates of elite military academies suchas Sandhurst and West Point, they got themselves into positions ofauthority at bases where the military kept. She tried to keep warm by exercising herself insofar as she could. She found that by means of this exercise she just about stopped herself from getting too cold. She was cold enough, though! The pain in her hands and feet made her cry in agony. The light was improving and in a few hours the sun would warm her, maybe excessively so if she were kept out here in its full glare."Oh, Hell! I hope old Charlie Ford gets my message. Come on, Charlie, come on!"She and he were not exactly friends, more.