LiberationThe crew was almost exactly the same as it had been on our previous trip. Some had joined us. Hooler, Breen, Freend and of course Gunar were our new passengers.
The behemoth — because I preferred that name to ‘ancient being’ — had befriended many of us entirely by the day we left. His body was different from ours, but almost all of us treated him as real. He felt most comfortable with the surface soldiers, so he applied for a post in one of the platoons. Bromir did him this favour, and his teammates were pleased with him. They knew what he was capable of in combat, so it was very easy for them to accept him.
Everybody was ready to start. I did not make a speech as I had done at the time of our previous departure, but entrusted this task to Breen. By then, all of our society kne
