SENJO<br/><br/>Hearing the radio chatter of a contact I was confused. It was a straight walkway to the School less than fifty metres long. The colony's lights were on. Did they not have a visual?<br/><br/>Over the open channel I asked,<strong>"Leftenant, the target might be small. Moving below the haze layer. A child perhaps. Or an animal."</strong><br/><br/>It was rare for colonists to bring dogs and cats out with them on their new lives and worlds but not unknown.<br/><br/><em>Or it could be moving below the floor gratings. In the service ducts.</em>I rose from my sentry control desk and moved out past B gun to the foot of the stairwell and through the doorway of the corridor leading to the School. Just beyond the door I squatted down to examine the floor plates and cabling ducts. Was there room for a human or smaller animal to move about under there? If there was we might have problems making any perimeter inside the colony structure secure.