It wouldn’t have done much good anyway—if they were going to dig into solid stone, they would need a lot more help.Finally, the girl stepped back,...dropping the scabbard as her legs gave out beneath her. She collapsed to her knees and stayed there, staring silently at the melted wall.Treya gave her a moment, then murmured, “Let’s see if we can convince her to come back. I don’t think she’ll talk to us out here. She’s too upset.”She offered Ariadne her hand. The girl ignored it at first, but. "What're you talking about?" I said. I heard my dry voice again."I told her this is the last time the two of you are behind the doors," Chelsea said, giggling. She then pushed Barbara into my room and closed the door behind her.The pink on Barbara's face had intensified. She played with her fingers, and alternated looking at me and at her fingers.After a moment of silence, she finally said. "Should I take it off?"I struggled to choose what to say, whether to tell her to drop her towel, or I. Like with the individual soldiers on the ground, anything using more than one frequency was more than likely an officer — a lieutenant at least, possibly even a captain or a lieutenant colonel."Anything?" Lon asked after three minutes had passed."Not much chatter going on at the moment on any frequency," Jefferson replied. "I guess they're not very talkative. Wait... there's one." He smiled, looking directly at the APC in question and using a finger on the kneeboard of his biosuit to put a mark. I would ask him for a specific time and he wasn’t always available. That had never happened to me before. Was this the flip side of guys wanting a girl because she made herself unavailable? No way. Jeff was too open and honest to play a game like that. He was also too inexperienced according to Sunny. He probably didn’t even know there was such a game. I wasn’t sure how I felt about him because I was in uncharted territory. I wanted to get closer to him, but at the same time it was a little.