After that I heaved and puked out the window for over an hour before I could stand the movement of the car. The only thing I remember after that was t...at I hung my head out the window of the car like a dog all the way home. When we got to my fiancé’s house he literally had to carry me up the steps and put me into bed. I laid there for hours watching the ceiling fan…which while off seemed to me to be self-propelled. Every time I closed my eyes the room spun. The next morning finally arrived and. Sure I have a nice car, and I happen to have done pretty well in the Corps, but aside from that? Nadda. No house, no wife, no kids, no side hustle, no backup plan.I sit up groggily in the shitty cot my step-dad set up for me in the garage, smirking as I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, thank god we live in Miami, eh?My few meagre belongings were tucked under a military-esque pop up cot, squared away in my patrol bag, a few more in the trunk of my 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302. Even in the dim light. Due to the strafing our Mechs took very little damage. What they did take was only armor hits. I think Zeke and I were the worse hurt of all of us and we were missing about a ton of armor each. After the first pass on the Mechs our Fighters broke off and provided top cover on our Bucs coming in for a landing. All the enemy Fighters should be accounted for from the information we had received but we didn't know if it was reliable or not. We did very similar to them in that we grouped all three. Philomena an’ Beth had been talkin’ it over an’ they decided that detectin’ could never be as excitin’ as bounty huntin’ so they changed their mind about bein’ in the detectin’ business. I wuz afraid they wuz gonna go back to bounty huntin’, but they said they’d take a break from that for a while too. I wuz hopin’ the break would be permanent like. We now had more money than a body could count so why not relax? One of the benefits of the publicity we got wuz that the galoots stopped comin’.