There's always an enemy, thinks Cougar. Sometimes, it's big enough that whole countries band together to fight it and these big lizards sound like they're definitely enough of something to merit more than one country in the mix.

"How do the robots work?" he asks, because while he's not the machines guy, he still has a healthy curiosity for weapons of all kinds -- even if it's not the kind you can turn around and bet in a poker game.