“So let me get this straight: When you woke from your tumble into the ravine you had total recall ... that being that you were a rocket scientist—”
“—and that you had contracted with the Department of Defense to design the next gen of soldier-mounted tactical backpack nukes ... even though they’d been outlawed since 1994.”
Williams hopped onto Ank’s tail and clambered to the top of his shell, where he positioned his rifle against the ceiling-less wall and began sighting the yowling were-raptors. “Fine. And that you were assigned to this place in spite of your age—S-4, they called it—but were vacationing in northern California when the Flashback hit: where you were attacked by a pack of raptors and died next to a pond before being lifted into the sky and brought back to life by aliens. Is
