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detect you. Then we can start figuring what the Gehenna to do next."

That made sense. And get it settled who's in command of this Donnybrook,
while we're at it, Conn thought. He looked into the rear and sideview
screens, and taking cover immediately made even more sense. Two more
fireballs blossomed, one dangerously close to the /Dragon/. Guns were
firing from the mountaintop, too, big ones, and shells were bursting
close to them. He saw a shell land on and another beside one of the
enemy gun positions?115-mm's from the [Pg 73]/Lester Dawes/, he
supposed. He continued to cling to the stanchion, and the /Goblin/ shot
straight up, and he was expecting to see the sky blacken and the stars
come out when the gunboat leveled and started circling down again. The
mountainside, he saw, was sending up a lightning-crackling tower of
smoke and dust that swelled into a mushroom top.

Klem Zareff, on the radio, was demanding to know who'd launched that.