Chapter Forty-Five
An hour later, six Army exos stood in the hangar, a maintenance truck with parts and ammo beside them. The rest of Cabrina’s squad lounged on crates, chatting quietly. They’d shared brief conversations with Erik and Jia but seemed content to keep their distance. Lanara kept glancing from the MX 60 to the soldiers and frowning as she filled the holes in the MX 60 with a long composite injector tube connected to a nearby cylindrical tank.
Jia was watching all this unfold from the bottom loading ramp of the Argo. She didn’t worry about working with Army assault infantry. She’d done it enough times before to know they were disciplined, hard-working men and women who could adapt to the most dangerous situations. The Hunter incident had proven that beyond any reasonable doub
