"Fly ops, deploy "Shriek" to reccy the hyper" ordered Slow into her boom mic.There was no perceptible response but some five minutes later the forward...screens showed "Shriek" accelerating for the hyper limit. She was a mere speck when there was a flare indicating turnover preparatory to the low velocity translation into hyper. Some minutes later, the report came back," Vector" "Shriek". Hyper clear at the lower levels to the range of Period. Over" "Shriek, remain in place to observe. "Vector". I’m just impatient to get my hands on my girl.November 16I woke up early again today. Way earlier than a teenaged boy ever should wake on Saturday morning. If my parents had made me get up this early, I would have been royally pissed, but I couldn’t blame them this time. It was my own fault. I was horny and wanted Katie.I thought about texting her, but I didn’t because I was certain it was too early and she’d still be asleep. I could hear Mom and Dad starting to stir and could smell their. Our plan was to kill as many of the Redsticks as possible without letting the others know that anything was going on.We had our usual weapons: the crossbow, the war club, and the Bowie knife. We crouched very close to the ground to make it very difficult to see us and to silhouette the sentries against the sky. There was a sliver of moon showing, so the light was perfect for our purposes. The Redsticks could not have chosen a better day for their attack from our point of view.The important. We just finished processing the results from everything this morning ... errr, over lunch. Things functioned far better than our projections. The stress test was a piece of cake; not a single bit lost; and down on St. Croix, we had full speed coverage of the entire island from just our three cellular test towers. Everything is WONDERFUL!”I had stood and come around my desk. I hugged the man, and even induced him into a little dance. Tom filled in a few details on both of his events, and then I.