They could pretty well put the protocols of the mission behind them. For several seconds the overturned Scout's engine continued to run, then gravity did its work and the motor died, Now it was If he could get Pete and the woman to shelter, and if the Arctic Cat back at Hole in the Wall would start, he thought this might still turn out okay. Pete reached for it, wanting to see if there was a bottle or two in there that wasn't broken, and when his leg shifted, a bolt of agony flew up from the knee.
'I like the way he carries his lunchbox over his head—' 'Yeah, that's bitchin,' Pete says. Did you achieve your prime objective, at least?' Kurtz lifted his chin in the direction of the shaft house. 'Smiling, sir. And here was something else — there was no pleasure in meeting its mind, none of the warmth that comes when like encounters like.
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