Returning the camera to his pocket, he then squatted down by theshocked almost-corpse and picked it up. High-Admiral Annan was gone; reported dead. A faxed message sat, crumpled on the desk, alongsidea color newspaper page from home showing the carnage. Jimenez counted them off, carefully,before ordering, Fourth Cohort! Support the assault by fire! Rifle and machine gun fire erupted from Jimenez's side of thechildren's' park.
After the twinexplosions the rest rushed the last few feet up to the trench, firingdownward from the hip as they ran. Carrera and hisboys, most of them, were coming home from Fort Cameron for the firsttime in weeks. The tranzitrees had no real use but aesthetics. Lourdes stopped with sudden confusion.
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