Sunlight on a broken column
On her display, the _kirishima_ nosed upwards, and the distance between it and the strixes that had trailed like ducklings grew sharply.
And there fell a great star from heaven
strixes were heavy and unmaneuverable, and the weight of the weapons packages made them yet more ungainly. but they had not yet been replaced, because the money was never available.
Interesting times
On the holographic map, she watched the strix make a slow circle, and then charge down towards their position.
In the Service of Mystery (Pt. 16)
By the time i calmed down again, i would be what brian strix had always called 'killer-robo-dog mode'. after the anger, i would try and plan how to deal with the problem.
Sweet Thames
strix dropships fell upside-down, thrusters burning for a steady one g worth of acceleration. "just like on earth," she'd been told by one of her classmates -- a strix jockey who was transferring to attack pilot school because it was less stressful.
Chapter 5 - Graduation
Bernard strix!" a large tiger-man walked up to the stage. the teacher handed him a frame. he held it up high. after the next few peoplethe teacher finally reached first place. "and now, for the person who topped the class.
In the Service of Mystery (Pt. 6)
'do you remember that time when i got brian strix to climb the west front of the cathedral with me?' harry asked. 'oh yes.' i replied, 'until then i didn't know that owls could get vertigo. what was that for?'
In the Service of Mystery (Pt. 5)
I remembered how, in our first year, he persuaded me, charlie hopes and brian strix to go on what he called a 'camping weekend', but it turned out to be a forty-eight-hour survival course in the middle of nowhere.
In the Service of Mystery (Pt. 24)
It was a look with flint in it, i think the last time i had been treated to that look was when brian strix had fallen and broken a wing on our 'camping weekend' back in seminary.
Shadow at evening
The strix could help, to a degree, but if usher's suspicions were correct and the separatists were setting up an ambush verne was not convinced even fran would be able to find anything.
Courrez aux combats
"what about the strixes, sir? we're well over ataq for an op like this, and they'll go in armed."
No hiding place
If howe hasn't locked it down, i want a medical strix spun up. we can get the critical cases to orbit on the next cycle. over." "magic. your call, captain. out."