Then she turned to her secure notebook computer and drafted a terse message.

All I got was a terse recorded message, and a plug for a new website.

This packet had contained a couple of letters, and a terse coded message.

Then, just yesterday, a terse message from her asking that he send along the rest of her things.

This time she left an even more terse message.

Another terse message suddenly came through his helmet headset.

"No, you left a terse message on my voice mail."

She knew that such a terse message was bound to upset Clark, but it served him right for going away at a time like this.

The first was from Weird, a terse message telling him to call home as soon as he picked it up.

"Not yet," I said cautiously, wondering what intention of the queen's might lie behind this terse message.