human
They got Tipene, sir! said Correy.
gpt
He dodged out ahead of the ray men, and two of them pounced on him. They were dragging him away, tearing him. The ray men wiped them out. Tipene was already dead--torn to fragments, they said. Back to the ship now, sir?
human
Back to the ship, I nodded, still rather breathless.
gpt
Let the ray men cover our retreat; we can take care of those between us and the ship with our pistols--and the _Ertak's_ projectors will attend to our flanks. On the double, men!