Athel
“Number of Mayakes left: 430 Goal for today: Create a weapon that will destroy the Gaijins’ supremacy.
Scavenger droids look like enormous crabs. About ten feet tall, they prowl the rugged terrain at the foot of the mesa, scoop dirt with their robotic hands, and shove it into their mouths.
Except theirs aren’t really mouths.
They’re sophisticated spectrometers, Lukas explains, his hastily typed message streaming along the bottom corner of my retina. Their detectors are so well calibrated they ...can distinguish copper from steel.
What if they find neither? I ask.
They vomit the dirt out. Watch.
The droid bends its three pairs of clawed legs, lowers its huge abdomen, and releases a whole pile of dirt from a chute in the middle of its lower belly.
It looks more like pooping than vomiting, I comment.
Crouched behind me, my fast-running friend Wes snickers. I turn to him and say, “Looks worse than you after a sugar binge.”
“No way,”
he replies, still laughing.
We both keep low, hiding in the aspen grove just outside the gorge.MoreLess
Scavenger droids look like enormous crabs. About ten feet tall, they prowl the rugged terrain at the foot of the mesa, scoop dirt with their robotic hands, and shove it into their mouths.
Except theirs aren’t really mouths.
They’re sophisticated spectrometers, Lukas explains, his hastily typed message streaming along the bottom corner of my retina. Their detectors are so well calibrated they ...can distinguish copper from steel.
What if they find neither? I ask.
They vomit the dirt out. Watch.
The droid bends its three pairs of clawed legs, lowers its huge abdomen, and releases a whole pile of dirt from a chute in the middle of its lower belly.
It looks more like pooping than vomiting, I comment.
Crouched behind me, my fast-running friend Wes snickers. I turn to him and say, “Looks worse than you after a sugar binge.”
“No way,”
he replies, still laughing.
We both keep low, hiding in the aspen grove just outside the gorge.MoreLess
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