"Abatises," the Marine said. "The vehicle is going to stall in opposition to them. No doubt about that. Coming uphill, slowly, those matters would cease a tank. We go in there, we'll be trapped in the ditch, no doubt at all. "
"So what the hell do we do?" Jade said.
The Marine officer shrugged.
"Bring me some engineers," he said. "The hole they blew is solely about twenty toes wide. We can bridge that. "
"How long will that take?" Webster asked.
The Marine shrugged again.
"All the way up here?" he said. "Six hours? Maybe eight?"
"Way too long," Webster said.
Then the radio receiver in McGrath's pocket started out crackling.
There was a long silence.
"Why did they say airspace?" Garber asked out loud.
"They had been paraphrasing," Webster said. "1776, there wasn't any airspace. "
