He shook out his pack of cigarettes.Have one? Jus' daydreamin', boss he said easily.Jus' daydreamin'. Gawd help us, Miller muttered.Fragmentation bombs, you said He lapsed into gloomy silence. Bitter-mouthed, savage, the American was swearing softly and continuously, oblivious to the pain as he pounded his fist time and again into the sharp-edged gravel before him. Then he became aware of the low murmuring to his left, shifted round again. The gravelly earth beneath his elbows grated harshly as Mallory shifted his weight slightly, looked at the two men to his right, Andrea with his impassive face empty of all expression, Louki with the sheen of tears in his eyes. The sudden silence was curiously oppressive, louder, more obtrusive than the clamour that had gone before. The frenetic stammering of the machine-guns stopped abruptly and in unison, the sound sheared off as by a guillotine. But what in the universe that other weird looking contraption can be. He squinted again at the guns, forehead lined in puzzlement.That first one's a mortar, I reckon. Mallory touched his arm.What is it, Dusty?Īh, well, mebbe I was mistaken, Miller said magnanimously. He shook his head in mortification.Itmust have been me, Andrea.Ībruptly Miller's smile vanished and he nodded. All this started just after I had been on watch-and Panayis didn't have the glasses. He paused, remembering, then grinned wryly.It could have been myself. It would only require a single flash to tip them off. There was no other way, therecould have been no other way. Of course, of course I had been wondering. They will, Mallory assured him.Just as soon as we fire and they find out where we are. I have been thinking, and it can be nothing else. Mallory stared at him, slowly released his grip on the glasses, nodded several times in succession. I do not believe it, Andrea said flatly.You couldn't make a mistake like that, my Captain. He risked a quick peep round one of the boulders, eased himself back again.Eight, mebbe ten of them still down there, boss, he reported.The poor bastards are like ostriches-trying to take cover behind stones the size of an orange. That inhuman bastard that sent these poor devils up that hill, Mallory said quietly.Make a wonderful pietare seen over the sights of your rifle, wouldn't he? But he was grateful to the New Zealander for trying to take their minds off what they had to do.Why don't they use them? That's right, Miller gowled.Cheer us all up. Miller looked round at him, eyes cold and still and empty of all recognition, then he blinked several times and grinned, a cut and bruised hand automatically reaching for his cigarettes. Almost three seconds had passed before the handful of those who still lived-about a quarter of the way in from either end of the line where converging streams of fire had not yet met-realised what was happening and flung themselves desperately to the ground in search of the cover that didn't exist. Only a couple stood still where they had been hit, vacant surprise mirrored in their lifeless faces, then slipped down tiredly to the stony ground at their feet. Schmeissers-it was no war, as he had said, but sheer, pitiful massacre, with the defenceless figures on the slope below, figures still stunned and uncomprehending, jerking, spinning round and collapsing like marionettes in the hands of a mad puppeteer, some to lie where they fell, others to roll down the steep slope, legs and arms flailing in the grotesque disjointedness of death. With four machine-guns in their hands-two Brens and two 9 mm. Would really appreciate any ideas for what to do because it's honestly ridiculous that I still can't find a solution four years after it was initially brought up.His last words were caught up and drowned in the tearing, rapid-fire crash of the automatic carbines. There's apparently a temporary solution of blocking and unblocking friends but thats doing nothing too. It seems to have gotten worse actually since another of my friends ended up like that when they hadn't before. I've tried all the usual stuff of restarting my computer and uninstalling and reinstalling steam but nothing's changing it. Wasn't something that I thought would matter but it means i cant add them to games and such since steam thinks theyre offline. The time it says they were last online is usually just when I opened steam/ turned on my computer (eg, I turned on my laptop 30 secs ag and it says they were last online then) I've only recently gotten this problem but a couple searches show it's been around since 2014 and still no one's done anything about itĮssentially when I go onto my friends list some of my friends will show up as offline even if they're online and messaging me at the moment.
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