midday
At the sunrise-line on Tralee only a handful of people were awake . They were dumbfounded . Where people breakfasted , the intentionally savage voice made food seem unimportant . Where it was midday , waves of violent emotion swept over the land . `` Call the defense forces , '' Bors commanded the grid office , by transmitter . `` They 'll be Mekinese -- Mekinese-officered , anyhow . We do n't want them to get ideas of attacking us , so identify us as the pirate ship _ Isis _ and order all police and garrison troops to stay exactly where they are .