We Shall Rise by John Ringo & Gary Poole

Author:John Ringo & Gary Poole
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781982125585
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2021-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

“So, Geraint, I’ve got you on PA,” Billy said, leaning into the big microphone, “tell everybody again. How did the Air Force come and get you?”

“Ah, Effy-bach, you’d hardly credit it,” came the plummy voice into his can-style headphones. “Effy” was an affectionate abbreviation for Billy’s ham call sign, Whiskey Edward Seven Foxtrot Foxtrot Yankee, or WE7FFY. Geraint, all the way over in northwest Great Britain, went by Golf Whiskey Four Echo Hotel India, or GW4EHI, not as pronounceable. “It was quite the adventure, so it was.”

From the pleased looks on Mr. Jud’s and Tee’s faces, Geraint was coming over just fine on the speakers, rolling R’s and over-emphasized diction, and all. The link was clearer than it had ever been, meaning the Welshman had a good signal with boosters to the ordinarily low power frequency. Billy checked his own power readings. Although he had built in capacitance to keep the flow steady, they could still experience a drop in current that would throw his “show” off the air and maybe short out his radio when it came back in. It was a new unit, salvaged from the same sound studio where they had found Tee, but if it got a surge up the line, it could burn the circuitry.

“What happened? It was just last night, wasn’t it?”

“Well, then, you know those RAF-eh chappies, they make a big noise doing efferything! So, you see, a monster great hellycopter cooms out of noweah and begins hovering-eh above us out here on Ynys Lawd. Men rrrrappelling down long skinny black ropes. At first, with our rrrraggedy clothes, they thought the five of us, we might be some of the walking-eh dead. But then, they let us get our things and loaded-eh us into the aircraft! A boompy ride-eh, and a welcome one. My, but weren’t they glad to see us on the base, and we were grateful too! Ah, the food! The first hot-eh meal was blissful, let me tell you that. I’ve-eh constrrructed in my mind the food I would eat when next I was given the chance. I dreamt of the barrrbecue you’ve described-eh to me, with crrrisped meat on the outside and tangy sauce to dip. I longed for Sunday roast and Christmas-eh puddings, but baked beans on toast and a prrrop-eh brewed cuppa tasted like all my Christmases in my life put together!”

Billy laughed at the humble description. “Beans on toast? That’s all?”

“Oh, my boy, it was a feast! And biscuits! Not tasted sweets in a long-eh while, now. I’ve lost more than four stone. But it’s all to the good, it’s all to the good. We slept in clean beds, after a genuine hot showah, so we did!”

Billy’s audience let out an audible sigh of pleasure. He grinned, and adjusted his gauges on the control board just a little.

“That sounds great, Geraint. I’m really happy you’re all okay. Have they started cleaning up the infecteds over there?”

“Ach, yes. We’ve all had the inoculations now, and there’s a

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