Ganz scratched his butt with one hand and scanned the area across the Air-purifiers heat basin with other. He took the binoculrs down from his eyes and looked over at his worn robot. He spoke into the headset, "All quiet up here. Nothing going on since the Leviathan tried to eat the hob-goblin. Someone gonna sub for me and T-9, so I came go home and eat dinner? Teelza's got a big pot of rice and tri-horn roast cooking at home. This month of civic duty is a drag on my home life!" Jav spoke up from the security central building, "Damn,man! You're making my mouth water! Is it the kind with carrots and yams? You Meshites can really cook!" Ganz laughed. "Yeppers! You bet! Thousands of years of experiance, racially speaking. She's been cooking all day, too. Mmmm! My wife's best dish! Those Domer's carrots cook up best with a pinch of salt. I can't wait. What the HELL?" Ganz put the binoculars upto his eyes and stared with disbelief. Jav noted the sound of alarm in Ganz's voice, and asked, "What's up?" Ganz said in astonishment, "A naked woman, with a Panchetta bug on arm, just climbed out of the basin side of the river and is making a bee-line towards the hob-goblin's APC. Damn. What a day!" Ganz watched the naked woman as she wended her way around the tracked APC with the assurance of a wild animal. She tested the air with her nose and padded around with caution. Her multi-colored skin shone like the irridescence of a soap-bubble, as she dripped poisonous water from her hair. He remarked in surprise ,"She's got colors like that crazy Madjullah woman, that took over the temple last week!" Jav snorted, "That woman, that CALLS herself Madjullah, is too muscular for my tastes! I wouldn't want to see HER naked! Bleah!" Ganz paused and whispered, "This girl is PERFECT. Not too muscle-bound, at all." As if responding to his whispered comment, the girl spun and stared him in the eye from 600 meters away. She stood with an intense expression of discovery and he could feel the power of her violet eyes. No person in the world had eye like that. The eyes changed color and glowed for a moment like fire-flies. She cocked her head over and grinned at him and waved! He smiled and waved back, reflexively. She went up the ramp to the door of the APC and started having a discussion with the unseen 'hob-goblin'. He blinked and pointed at her and said to the robot, "T-9! Did you see that?" The robot continued looking at the woman, and responded in a pleasant male voice, "If you mean,did I notice the remarkable color-change and subsequant luminescence of her irises--why YES, I did. It was most remarkable. Is she, what you refer to, as a 'Discard'? A genetically constructed human-replicant with humanoid appearance and little to no human DNA used in it's construction?" Ganz nodded, "Yeppers. She's gotta be a 'Discard'. Never seen one so bold as her, though. Damn! What a work of art! She is frikking magnifiscent!" T-9 touched his shoulder and announced, "Sir! We have intruders in our air-space! Collectors from Flying City 64!" Ganz shouted, "Jav! Did you copy that?" "Ganz--stand by!" Jav sounded tense After a moment, while Ganz watched the Collectors circle down like police-blue vultures, Jav responded. "Ganz, City 64 just informed us that are seeking an escapee discard. The typical flying city bull-shit! I'm sending up some snipers to your postion. Keep us informed." Ganz felt the cold sweat trickle down his back as the Collectors closed in on the girl. When he was selected last month, for a month of sentry duty as part of his citizenship of Trashtown, he didn't know what he was in for. Two days on the job and all hell was breaking loose. In a small voice, squeezed tight by stress, he asked quietly, "Snipers?" There was no answer. Media is Vue 5 Easel.