Running into her room, Anika pulled her box all the way down to the North room, refusing to leave anything of value to her in her room with Sibbe’s ...wful daughter Inga. She was ugly too, Anika thought, her black eyes clouding with anger at the pain on her cheek. Overweight, dowdy, unwashed skin and hair, and she was only seventeen!! Anika hated the thought of the rude creature sleeping in her mother’s bed, let alone its spawn sleeping in her own. Pulling her box to the window, Anika let the. "Dismount!" came Ayers' cry, his voice sounding scared, desperate, very unlike the cool, professional tone of command it usually instilled. "Get everyone out and start advancing towards the base."The APCs stopped and they'd scrambled out in a disorganized heap, two hundred meters short of their planned egress point and without much of anything in the way of natural cover from the gunfire that was erupting around them."Callahan, Meyers," Ayers ordered. "Get your platoons to put some covering. Stanton activates Dune and returns to orbit to provide overwatch — "Sundowner" is masked by the Orbitals.Threep meantime goes all electronic, jams any bugs and collects all the 'puter drives that Mercedes has removed from the 'puters.737 now, electronically the flivver, lands on pad and hovers on antigrav; she'll hang over the street but hopefully no one will be looking at the night sky and hopefully there is no vid surveillance — if there is and somebody wants to play we'll respond.Sundowners. That made Mansi uncomfortable and also a little angry. What did they think she was? Mansi walked into the bedroom, but left the door open. She could overhear snippets of conversations. It was mostly business jargon that she had no idea about. She looked around the bedroom. Just like the suite, it was artfully decorated. There was a huge king bed with a couple of night stands. A glass desk and a chair. And there was a big screen TV. Mansi waited for a few minutes. Then sat down on the bed and.