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High up on the ''gipfel'' the setting sun picked out a halo of the eagles circling the summit. Suddenly, one wing-morphed and dropped. Schweiner double-took: That is one ''absolute unit'' of a hunting bird — some monstrous condor. At this remove, the majestic predator seemed to drift so serenely down from the crest, but Schweiner knew it was dropping like a bullet towards some hapless creature on the valley floor. | High up on the ''gipfel'' the setting sun picked out a halo of the eagles circling the summit. Suddenly, one wing-morphed and dropped. Schweiner double-took: That is one ''absolute unit'' of a hunting bird — some monstrous condor. At this remove, the majestic predator seemed to drift so serenely down from the crest, but Schweiner knew it was dropping like a bullet towards some hapless creature on the valley floor. | ||
''Wonder who''. “Poor bastard,” Schweiner murmured, slipping into Kevlar body-armour in preparation for his own upcoming fire-fight. He wondered whereabouts on the plain the unfortunate animal was. It occurred that anything bigger than a rabbit should should show up on the dash | ''Wonder who''. “Poor bastard,” Schweiner murmured, slipping into Kevlar body-armour in preparation for his own upcoming fire-fight. He wondered whereabouts on the plain the unfortunate animal was. It occurred that anything bigger than a rabbit should should show up on the dash. | ||
“Huh,” he said to himself. | Schweiner checked the HUD: the RAG system still flat-lined. | ||
He checked the LIDAR feed. ''Zilch''. | |||
He ESPER-zoomed. ''Nix''. | |||
He flipped to heat-sensor mode and cranked that up to max res. ''Zipster''. | |||
“Huh,” he said to himself. “Big bird going to be bad disappointed.” He yanked on his battle-gloves, snapped the latex and slid back into the cockpit. Over the CB, Bugsy was rocking out to Billy Joel. | |||
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The wing-man pulled in his and adjusted his pitch and yaw to be 20 meters ahead of the rig. He rocked the [[gaze heuristic]]. | The wing-man pulled in his and adjusted his pitch and yaw to be 20 meters ahead of the rig. He rocked the [[gaze heuristic]]. | ||