CHAPTER 73
The trainees were below ground in Silo One gathering their gear when the top of Silo Two opened like a giant clam shell. Dwight and Grim were already motoring down the road to get the Huey. So, Jeff was the only witness as the Comanche rose into midday light. It looked even nastier in the daytime than it had at night.
Now it was easy to see the foreignness of its shape. The harsh angles, the dull gray-brown of the fancy materials it was built from, the complete lack of markings, and that Shelley had taken time to attach a couple more nasty-looking missiles to the undercarriage. She wasn’t about to get surprised in the air again and that was fine by him. She took off from the elevator pad and shuffled sideways to land beside him.
He did his best to climb in, every movement mad
