10"Look what the cat just puked up!" Chief Engineer LieutenantTorus Azimuth roared the words from the upper catwalk of the vast Engineering Deck. "Some kind of rancid hoozehock, it looks like! I swear, I can smell it all the way up here!"
Scott stood on the floor below and looked up at him, thinking dark thoughts. "Corporal Solomon Scott reporting for duty, sir."
"I know who you are!" said Azimuth. "We all do, don't we?"
It seemed like every man and woman in Engineering was watching the scene unfold. Scott saw them leaning over the catwalks, standing on the floor, poking their heads out of nooks and accessways in between. They all wore red jumpsuits with black Diamondback emblems, and every one of them seemed to be grinning and nodding at the same time, agreeing with their Chief.
