CYTM78

=Chapter 78=
==Can you tell me where can we start over?==
The ruins
Tharkad, Lyran Alliance
3067
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Lt. Commander Linda 'Seether' Sithers  shoved the pry-bar under a piece of building, and grunted with the effort of lifting it enough for two Marines in work-exos to get a grip on the broken ferrocrete, and lift...
"Corpsman! We've got another one!!"
Corpsman Samantha Liu looked over at the X.O., handed an IV bag to a Lance Corporal. She scooped her bag up, to dash over while Linda planted the foot of a jack-screw on a stable portion of foundation.
The 'mechwarriors and Regulars were busy doing Dirtyfoot Soldier things.  The Coasties from 1st Division were kinda busy working to lower the possible death toll from a Regimental battle fought in the middle of a down-town full of shops and apartment blocks.
Most of which were no longer in shape, and their residents were homeless, or wounded, or trapped, or all three, and what's left of the city's first-responders were already swamped with this kind of work.
Seether stuck close to the injured civilian woman babbled in German and crying. Seether tried to translate for Liu, who didn't speak a word of German and barely could speak English.  The woman in the hole was babbling too much to understand.
"Mueller!! we need a Translator over here-she's talking too damn fast!"
"Jawohl!" Mueller was a native German speaker from Heinietown in Nha Tranh, and he came over, speaking in a measured tone in a language that Seether only understood about a tenth of.
The woman was crying, and held up a bundle, Mueller took the bundle and showed it to Liu.
"Is that what I think..." Seether asked, seeing the grief in their faces.
"Yes.  She doesn't want to believe the child is dead, ma'am...should I tranq her so I can treat her?"
"Do it."  Seether turned away as the tears welled up.
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