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8 July 21 Gwafa had fallen asleep, his head onTakutas legs. One eye opened. Bea stood before them; she checked her watch, 5:03. Its party time any of time, chaps. Lets brace ourselves to our duty. Bathed by the dawns emerging light, Takuta led a gurgling Udad by the reigns, passing the old crumbling and […]

104 | John W. Warner IV pranks on one another; they were just boys fighting far from Germany or Austria or Italy, and it was obvious they missed their families and loved ones, proudly showing their comrades photos and keepsakes from the mail, little bits of sanity from home they would keep in their pockets

Lion, Tiger, Bear 1105 a dense coolness that almost made them shiver. Or was it just nerves? she asked herself grimly. A startle; birds shot out and took flight as if knowing Bea was leading a funeral procession of three plus Udad.’Ihe sheer calmness and serenity of the stunning environs both unnerved and soothed her,

106 | John W. Warner IV More hearty laughter, as if their deployment at Siwa were nothing but a holiday or exotic excursion to the back of beyond, an arid trifle, a much-needed rest for a battle- weary and threadbare arm of the vaunted and undefeated Deutsche Afrika Korps under Generaloberst Irwin Rommel, one that

Lion, Tiger, Bear I 65 Bernie sat on the creaky bed. Been a long time. How-w-w are they treating you? Hows your stomach these days? Hess sighed a little. Oh, they delight in feeding me bland Welsh muck fit only for a horse, if thats what you mean. But a little suffering and torture is

66 | John W. Warner IV as.. .as State policy. Not genocidel Bernie felt sad for all the Jews, dissidents, Russians, and captured undesirables in the camps. Its going to get worse. Trains are being diverted from military use to haul human cargo; the Krupp works are making big furnaces with Hess became enraged, and

Lion, Tiger, Bear I 67 was me on radar. The King was supposed to be there with his Freemason lap dogs Lord Halifax, Duke of Hamilton, Prince George, and Lord Mountbatten, another queer of note. Haushofer had assured me they were willing to negotiate an armistice. It was Hauss prophecy, and whats left of the

68 | JohnW.WarnerIV hangar queens. They glow bright colors depending on power levels, making them ideal targets. On a bigger experimental disc, the Hanebu One, the 30mm cannon rounds ignited from the strong electromagnetic field, then it crashed, the pilot killed! Bernie whistled. Holy kittens. The Vril Society was originally a utopian sect, one based

Lion, Tiger,Bear I 69 prototype zero-point energy generator near Breslau, Die Glocke, “Die Bell, but its in its design infancy, unreHable, dangerous. Many early versions have blown up, killing hundreds. Gestapo Muller, the police chief of the Reich, has provided three rings of tight security around the Pilzen Skoda Works and Breslau, its a marvel

70 | John W. Warner IV displacing me at the Berghof meetings, the inner circle a pit of vipers. I hated those politics, everyone sidelined me at every turn. I was seen as weak, an occultist fool, an untrustworthy Anglophile. Adolph also hated that I brought my own food up there, clean food. Your insecurity