Pausing for another sip, she lifted her eyebrows. “Our position was the only one that held out and kept firing during the whole engagement. There's a news photo of the aftermath -- Changeling bodies, hundreds of them, poked full of holes by AA spears, piled up in a neat circle around the central shield radius, as if we were trying to build a wall out of corpses. The official kill number assigned to our company was a little over three hundred, but the same report acknowledged it may have been more than twice that, since it's known that the other four batteries in our defense zone were all knocked out within the first minutes of the assault, whereas ours kept firing for the whole half-hour."