<div class="floatright">(http://foomandoonian.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/colonel-badass.jpeg)<br/></div><br/><em>"Really?"</em>Eric thought.<br/>He was standing there, in what seemed a buffoon meeting, and a<em>Pommy</em>, a<em>Pommy</em>girl, just walked in, addressed him like he was some kind of puppy, and walked away. If the situation had been different, hadn't he been in a room full of clowns, he would have ignored that pompous high heeled girl. But war teaches you to adapt and that up-tightness is good only when you are off field.<br/><br/>He followed the girl, or was she a woman? At his age telling the difference had become hard sometimes. Nowadays teenagers were dressing up like hookers and wordly-wise women used surgery as often as toothbrushes.<br/>Walking behind her he took a good look at the frame.<em>"Six feet, no, five-five at most, she walks on stilts. Hundred-forty pounds, clothes included. I bet I can pull her up with one arm."</em>She was wearing a loose blouse, if she had a concealed weapon it couldn't be more than a pencil sharpener.<br/>Eric wasn't feeling threatened, not from the female, but was still wary, in his field of work, people don't outrun their forties by being cocky. For this reason when his gaze wandered down the girl's hips and legs, it only marginally registered the wiggle of her walk in those dark jeans. An information unconsciously stored in his brain eventually to be recalled in more relaxed times.<br/><br/>They passed the pale guy and the blue haired chick that had preceded them. It seemed he was teaching her some manners. Eric didn't glitch, he had this rule about not minding the business of others, if not paid. Besides, a hundred pounds girl should know better than mess up with a guy a feet taller than her, if not, the sooner she was going to learn that lesson the better. So he kept following the other woman along a corridor of some kind of facility. What stroke him were the man words: he didn't get the whole conversation but did he mentioned God? Who were these people? They weren't islamic terrorists, that was obvious, so why the religious talks? He kept his questions to himself: if they were going to give him information they would have done, if not, asking wasn't going to change things and talking would have only meant to admit weakness.