”“What’s going on out there?” she sniffled.“Ambush.”Kay drew in a deep breath.“We were waiting for them to make their move. Now that the... have it’s over.”“Luca, Luca!” Peter called.“In here.”“Kay ... oh ... I see your safe.”Kay heard the noise settle, the gunfire stopped. All she heard were voices and people walking around.“Is it over?” she sniffled.Peter glanced at Lucas, “I hope so. We got Carlo and some of his men. Some didn’t make it. Our guys came through without a scratch.”Kay blanched at. I looked were she was pointing and blanched as I saw about a hundred riders coming down a hill on the other side of the river. The big rounds were ripping the enemy apart. Killing humans and horses alike and then they were gone, back over the hill."Shit!" I snapped out.I pressed the gas and we took off from where we were sitting. I could see them paralleling us as we traveled. The river narrowed in a few places and then widened out to over a five hundred feet in some. I was traveling as fast as. But you are going to have a very busy schedule next week and will be traveling almost all of Wednesday. Would you not rather come to my place and let me plan the dinner?”Khrys grinned at me as she answered. “Of course, I would much prefer coming to your place. But in realizing how our evening is going to end I really do not want to have to come back home afterwards. I would much prefer that after we are done you tuck me into bed and then you return to your place. You and I both know that. It was one thing to annihilate a human space ship. It was another altogether to tackle the forces arraigned against them by a robot civilisation whose technology was roughly equivalent to one’s own. Nevertheless, there was only one course of action left to the star fleet put in position by Sirius Mission Control. In spite of the complications that would result from vaporising a small fleet of Proxima Centauri space craft, this would be necessary to ensure that the Intrepid’s progress towards.