Splice of Life
"i'm an old machine, an accident at that. most ap don't feel..." rowan told her and mae could feel the suffering in those words, "i don't want to feel any more mae." together they huddled through the night, crying and trying to console each other.
The Mark of Kain
But they did enough classified work to justify keeping the old machine connected, and that was all kain needed. using the long guy's tools, he started to pick it apart, looking for a port that was not secure and not monitored.
Migratory Birds- Chapter 8- Mica
These matters were rather profane: i was asked to dislocate heavy obstacles, to magically repair some of their ancient old machines, to chase away a very persistent swarm of biller birds that ravaged the farmers' fields from time to time and other such tasks
The Dark Eternity to Come
One for one, we were definitely better than what the sanganese were fielding, and i bet my old mech is _still_ somewhere in those woods."
Reaper: Hades - Chapter 2
Then past that were the ruins of old machines. lots of cover, plenty of traps and god knows who else is waiting in there. then there's the factory itself..." jacob shuddered. "without a full platoon, i don't think we would've made it through there.
Confidential Mission
Dan looked out and spotted an old machine. with a smile, he placed his hand on the floor and channeled the spell towards the machine. when it hit the machine, it creaked loudly before blowing up causing lots of yelling and confusion.
Double the Pleasure
At the well-used old machine, fox was quick to decide on a bagel, a bowl of oatmeal, and a cup of coffee. dull but practical, it was the kind of meal that was easy to keep down in zero-g flight.
A Waste of Desert Sand
She recalled that meshüsh gürun had been installed over an underground river, where the loom extracted its thaumaturgic energy for shïrn to use in repairing the city's old machinery and fixing its broken walls...
Binding the Restless Wave
A tarp on the forecastle covered an old machine gun. i wondered for half a second how she knew that. "no. those we bought surplus after the war. when people started reporting pirates, criminals on the east coast. rum-runners, some of them.
Pictures In The Snow ( A DitD Christmas Story - A Writer's Portrait )
He turned back to his computer and his old mechanical keyboard, tail wagging a few times. "go on then, ya grumpy bastard. tell me your story." valyrym murmured, stretching out his plated forlegs against the coyote's bed. "so, there i was.
Le Pussycat of the Sky
A black and silver-striped biplane with a smooth cowl over the engine and even with the old machine gun mounts still on it. it looks _monstrously_ huge to someone of oliver's size. "is that..." he gapes at it. "is that from the war?"
A Carnal Beast
Behind the ranks of tightly-packed goatmen, a normal-looking woman was standing, surrounded by a handful of even larger specimens - these ones carrying actual weapons, ranging from over-sized axes to old machine-guns that they'd likely have no trouble firing