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some sort of body
process in there where very acid blood reacts with a mineral to give off the
hydrogen needed. That would allow the Baldrick to breath fire as well. There
are things about these flying Baldricks that are reminiscent of humans, its
almost as if they were a parallel evolutionary path from a common ancestor
somewhere.
    “The
second class we’ve run into are the aquatic ones. According to Astute, the one
they killed was more than a hundred feet long, about 20 feet in diameter and
has flipper-like legs, six of them. They did careful pH testing on the water as
they closed on the corpse and detected no sign of acidity. Also, note, despite
being hit by two torpedoes, it didn’t burn. So, our working hypothesis is that
this one doesn’t have acid blood. The one that came ashore near Tokyo walked on
its flipper-legs, all six of them. Apparently it fought by shooting jets of
water at things. Anyway, the JMSDF-GF will be sending over information as it
develops. One thing they have said, apparently the flesh doesn’t make good
Sushi. I’m not sure what worries me most about that, the fact that doesn’t make
good Sushi or that somebody tried it. Either way, at the moment we’ll know more
about the Aquatic ones than the others soon.
    “The
third group are the land ones. These have just started to appear. According to
the Russians, they’re over a hundred feet tall. They’re tough, they walk on
their hind legs using their forearms to strike blows. They have vestigial wings
only. No acid blood again. The ones that appeared have been killed so quickly
we have no idea whether they breath fire or what.”
    “We’re
going to need names for all these types. Baldrick’s good enough for a generic
name, I agree with Condi, we have to distinguish between the mythology we’ve
all read and the reality we have to fight.” President Bush leaned back in his
seat, rubbing his eyes. “Does it seem to anybody that these Baldricks are
getting tougher.”
    “Certainly
Sir.” Senator Warner tapped the pictures of the three types of demons. “There’s
a definite progression here. There’s another thing, we have people going
through ancient records, demonologies, grimoires that sort of stuff. Now, the
information in there is undoubtedly corrupted and distorted but we’re hoping it
gives us some form of clue as to what we can expect. One thing we have noted.
You’ll note that these Baldricks haven’t come in blasting. We would, under the
same circumstances, we’d be advancing behind a wall of missiles, tactical air
and artillery fire. These just cruised straight into our defenses and died on
them.
    “We
think we may have discovered the reason for this. One of our early readings
found a mention of demonic heralds who were supposed to carry the word of their
master to his new subjects. Apparently they would just appear in a population
center, announce that all within were now subjects of their master and carry
them off to hell. As far as we can see, nobody ever resisted. There’s even a
suggestion that, by some sort of celestial Geneva Convention, these heralds are
immune from attack.”
    Bush
frowned. “Attorney General Mukasey, has the United States ever signed an
agreement to that effect.”
    “No
Sir, we have not.”
    “Good,
doesn’t apply to us then. Tell everybody to keep shooting. A question John,
does ‘immune from attack’ mean that they can’t be shot at or that they are
immune to weapons fire?”
    “Our
guess at this time Sir is that the second lead to the former. People found
their bows and arrows and so on didn’t work against them so they rationalized
it by creating the former. Of course, we could be wrong on that. But the key
point is, if these are the heralds referred to in the Grimoire, the real armies
of hell are still to get here. We have to stack our defenses ready.”
    “I
agree, Henry.” Treasury Secretary Paulson started. “Henry, we need
supplementals, huge ones. This is a war, we have