The troops ship out today. General Salazar has been ordered to take and hold the landing for six miles beneath the surface. We’ve already lost it twice as the hole swallowed up the fifth and twelfth, the differs got brought in to open the hole wide the way a surgeon will crack open a ribcage to get at the heart. Now they fly blackhawks down and sometimes after an accident, paratroopers who dive into the dark like teenagers skinny dipping at midnight.