"Kevin Killiany - Battletech - Battlecorps - Immortal Warrior" - читать интересную книгу автора (Killiany Kevin)

twisted metal dotted about the burning fields.
The BattleMech had to see her, but she hoped the Immortal
Warrior’s armor would frighten it as she ran across the open ground.
It did not fire. Or step on her when she ran in front of its toes. Her
heart was pounding as she reached the base of the tree.
Looking up through the branches, she tried to find her brother.
She knew Billy was up there, but she couldn’t see him.
“Billy?” she called, straining to catch sight of him. “Billy!”
After a moment her brother’s head appeared over the edge of
the broad branch the tire swing was tied to. His eyes were red and
puffy and he looked like he had been crying.
“What are you doing here?” he asked.
“I’m here to rescue you,” she answered.
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“Jessie, get out of here,”
he said. “This isn’t pre-
tend.”
Jessie glanced over at
the BattleMech, though
from under the canopy
of the ironwood all she
could see was its lower
legs. It was so big, and
the house so far away. For
a moment she couldn’t
breathe, it took a shud-
dering gasp to pull air
into her lungs. She felt
her eyes sting as tears
threatened.
Jessie shook herself.
The Immortal Warrior
would not be afraid.
She looked back up at her brother, still watching her from the
branch above.
“Get down here right this second, soldier,” Jessie ordered in her
best Immortal Warrior voice. “We’ve got a mission to complete.”
“You’re crazy, Jessie,” Billy said. “Get out of here.”
“Not without you.”
Billy pulled his head back out of sight and for a moment Jessie
thought she was going to have to yell at him again. Then his leg
appeared over the side, swinging back and forth until his foot
snagged the rope holding the tire swing.
In less than a minute he was standing beside her.
“That’s a Quickdraw,” he said, pointing to the BattleMech near
them. “It’s fast. There’s another and a Lynx over there. That’s three.
Number four’s got to be somewhere.”
Jessie was uninterested in what the BattleMechs were called or