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The name hit his processor like a short-circuit.

“Thank you,” she said.

The terrain was worse than usual. A dust storm had rolled in overnight, reducing visibility to twenty meters. His magnetized feet crunched over shattered metal and something softer he did not look at. His blaster was useless in this weather—he could not see far enough to shoot anything. So he walked. autobot-7712