The cyborgs are on permanent defense in Delta; they aren’t stupid enough to venture into the bog, knowing that they would literally be swallowed up if they tried. Xxnx You continue to squirm and to struggle; you try to heave your whole body up and out of the mire, like some giant, writhing insect, but all your efforts only make you sink down even further and now you’re up to your armpits in the merciless muck. The Zadons have been hit hard by the other two converging pincer attacks, but the recruits can see that the battle is far from over; most of the Zadon quad is still standing and the landscape is littered with hundreds of corpses in black armor. All the teens’ adolescent exuberance has vanished; instead of the boisterous, high spirited boys that they were this morning, they’re now just a group of
