"THUNDER" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rose Martin)

"doing the jobs we've been doing for so long. And as if that wasn't
enough by itself, just about every enemy the UG has is just about
pouncing en masse. They're all stretched to their limits; they can't
even keep peace on the streets effectively anymore."
"Let alone help us," Martin added. "Life as a Wedge Rat has just
turned Bad."
Could be worse, Dund signed with a shrug.
Martin raised an eyebrow at him. "How?"
He thought for a moment. No idea, he replied. But something'll come
to me.
"I'm not gonna TOUCH that line."
Chris cleared his throat.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I suppose you were about to tell us about your
trouble."
"Well, not in any great detail. I was just putting on my CVR outside
3WA HQ when I got jumped by a bunch'a goons."
Danilia sat forward, eyes wide with surprise. "Right outside?"
He nodded. "Right on their doorstep."
"Lucky for him," Katie broke in, "he was talking to me when he got
brained. Otherwise, I doubt I could've caught up with his captors soon
enough."
Martin smiled at the Valkyrie. "Well met, Kate."
She responded with a V-for-Victory sign. "Hey, he's practically
helpless without me."
"Am not," Chris defended.
"Are too."
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Dee too," Martin completed.
Nadia stretched her long limbs. "Well, that was unnecessary."
"And how," Hanson concurred.
"It's still difficult to believe," Tom said, restoring the former
train of thought, "that the Wedge Defense Force is being thrown to the
Four Winds."
"Has been thrown, Tom," Martin corrected. "If anyone were to have
attempted to revive it, it would have been Lord Fahrvergnugen, and he's
ancient history, bordering on mythology."
Eiko looked at him worriedly. Was that a hint of resentment in his
voice?
"Guess it's true, then," Blaster said with uncharacteristic gravity.
"We really are all that's left."
For a while, the only sound in the bay was the whisper of Katie's
generator.
"Alone, against the galaxy," Noriko observed quietly. "With nothing
to carry us but the hope that -- someday -- it will all begin anew."
"Very profound, Skipper," Korren nodded. "Romantic, in a tragic sort
of way."
Martin sighed, slumping forward to dump his chin into his hand,