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Javelin Headquarters was on the move to the old Moondagger positions.
"Sir, radio report coming in from the Wolves!" Preville relayed. "The Moondaggers are running. Running! They're quitting and running hard up the highway to Bowling Green. Their legworm supports are going with them."
A lieutenant checked their large-scale map. "They keep heading down that highway, and they'll be getting into Mammoth country."
"Wonder what the Mammoth thought about the little catechism from those men the
'Daggers sliced up," Valentine said. "I wouldn't want to have my truck break down there."
"Wouldn't surprise me if they built a wooden cage or two," Patel said. "It's the end for them."
"Not the end," Valentine said. "Not even the beginning of the end." As Churchill might have put it, it was just the end of the beginning.
With the Moondaggers broken across Kentucky and perhaps beaten at last, a fatal crack in the foundation of the Kurian Order had been opened. Like any fault in a structure's foundation, it might not be easily seen or the danger recognized at first. But that first crack would allow more to appear, branching out until the whole edifice crumbled.
Even such an awful pyramid as Valentine had spoken of back at Rally Base could be undermined and brought down, in time.
Valentine hoped he'd live to see the fall.
