A lengthy but indeterminate amount of time passes.
-It is now firmly summer.
-Raiden returns with no casualties.
-Repairs proceed on the planes.
-Guerra recieves some psychological treatment from the hospital bed (but doesn't make a full recovery yet, physically or mentally).
-Kissinger, and just about anyone who cares, sees the transcripts of the hostage debacle.
-Everyone else sees Kissinger's crazy mug.
-News reaches McNamara that the Zentragoths are gradually being pushed back. brown townysts theorize that their sudden lack of success in Mercana is due to unruly populations in southern Kiraza combined with increased pressure on the Aesthian front requiring them to divert more men and materiel away from the front to those locations. As a result, the Mercanan offensive is severely understaffed. The Huits have not run into such problems yet, however, and continue to run rampant.
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