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one area held a special surprise. And in a moment the Trooper was sinking to its waist through the
snow, down into a pit that had been dug underneath the trail.
"Cut your lines!" Rand shouted to the women.
Rook ran to the area he had indicated and drew her knife. She severed the cables as he
called out the numbers. Instantly, sharpened logs swung down toward the trapped Trooper from the
surrounding treetops. Thrusters blazing against the pit's hold, the Invid dodged the first two and
parried the third with its pincer targone, but the fourth punched through the ship's scanner and
immobilized it. The Trooper was lifted up out of the pit and sent flat on its back in the trail.
The sharpened log protruded out of its blood-red eye like a stake thrust into a vampire's heart.
"God...we did it," Annie said in disbelief.


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Rook wiped sweat from her brow. "Too close this time, just too close."
"Not bad." Rand smiled, striding over to the bleeding ship. "A bit primitive perhaps, but
I had confidence in it.
Rook scoffed at him. "Sure thing, Rand. And I suppose almost getting yourself killed was
part of the plan?"
"That's always part of my plan," he told her. "Just to impress you a bit."
"You're never scared?" Annie said, taken in.
Rook looked over at Rand, then down at Annie. "Only when no one's looking at him," she
told her.

Somewhat closer to the chute, Scott and Lunk were attempting to bring their own primitive
plan into play. They had skirted the edge of the woods, keeping themselves just above the tree
line, then worked back toward the western buttress of the cirque. As hoped, the Invid commander
had split its forces-her forces, Scott was now telling himself-but two of the four Troopers had
picked up their trail and were narrowing the gap.
The avalanche had touched off secondary slides in several of the tributary crevasses below
the basin, and in one of these, an exposed grouping of moraine boulders perched precariously above
the gully's narrow floor. Scott thought that if they could lure the Troopers into the ravine, then
somehow manage to loosen those boulders...
Lunk was skeptical, but he didn't see that there were any alternatives. The VTs and
Cyclones hadn't been completely buried by the snow, but they couldn't even think about reaching
them until they had cut the enemy down to size. So he volunteered to go up top and see if he could
pry some of the rocks free, while Scott set out to bait the two enemy ships.
Lunk had found what he considered to be a persuasive boulder that would force the entire
group into a slide, and he had his shoulder to it when Scott entered the ravine at a run, the
Troopers right behind him. The lieutenant reached the end of the ravine and turned to fire a few
shots at his pursuers, meant more to antagonize than to inflict any damage. But more than that,
Scott's short burst was aimed at keeping the Troopers at bay for just the few seconds Lunk needed
to send the boulder crashing down toward them.
"Hurry!" Lunk heard between H90 reports. "They're in position!"
Lunk shoved his bare shoulder to the stone, boots trying to find purchase in the snow.
Down below, one of the Troopers opened fire on Scott. The anni discs threw up a fountain of snow
that momentarily buried him, but Lunk saw Scott shake himself out of it. And perhaps it was the
sight of his friend's peril that gave him the extra push he needed, because all at once the
boulder was toppling over and commencing its slide and tumble toward the pack.