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anger on her face evaporated, and the sun came out, with rainbows shining and birds singing.
Reggie stepped into her open arms, squeezed her, and half-carried, half-dragged her through her own apartment. "However it comes out, I wanted to be with you for the ending," he explained.
"Me too." Mercedes pointed into her workroom. "There's the best view in the house."
"You've been doing a great job, by the way. I've been watching your forecasts."
"Thank you," she said distractedly. She looked back over her shoulder, hearing a sharp sound of battle from the other room.
"You're right, no chitchat till we've seen this through."
Arm in arm, they entered the work room to watched the outcome.
* * *
CJ reached the end of the carpet of minitanks and leaped lightly to the ground. She spun as she landed, to flip and kill the minitank she had just used as a stepping stone. She looked up to see Lars trying to duplicate her performance, leaping across the backs of the minitanks, but his progress was slow and