And as the rain came down harder we both just trudged along. Every now and then, Brian would ask me another question about working for ITI, but he was...just feeding his brain with all of the facts.Eventually we got to lunch, we had come down from the high line of the wall to the road, and a pub, and it was warm and dry inside. Yes, there was comfort and warmth in the world, I'd just given up any hope of ever finding it again.It was when we'd finished eating and I'd bought the second pints, Brian. ( I don't have to tell you about tan-stripes. And I don't mind to wear such a thing on vacation, when nobody around knows me. But having Karl see it, was something completely different. )„This is kinda embarassing“, I grinned.„Why? You look great“, Karl replied. „I would love to take a picture like that off you sometime.“„Oh I bet you would“, I said. Don't ask me why, but at the moment, I wasn't even angry for him to say such a blunt thing. „But let me show you the rest of my home.“„Sure“, he. " They may have their own finally if Sven has anything to say about it," Jacob chuckles. "He's charming the panties right off them, probably as we speak, probably literally. Well maybe not literally right now, but it's inevitable. He is a gentleman when in the presence of ladies at least."Jealousy raises its ugly head again. "So you and this Sven are friends," Esther inquires tightly. "I suppose you team up to charm ladies."Jacob shows a surprised raising of his eyebrows to Nick who shrugs.. "Okay, everyone mount up. Mechs go out first, then the snowcats. We hit them hard and we hit them fast," Lydia shouted as she ran to her Ninja Mech, starting the climb up the side of the Mech and into the capsule.Around the massive cavern, the Mechs of the assault squads powered up, ten Mechs to a squad, twenty to a unit as they started moving out. All of them were painted white so it would make them harder to be seen in the Alaskan wilderness. They started moving down the long passageway to.