A lock of hair, a St. Christopher, a playing card and the ubiquitous rabbit foot were good luck charms in Teddy's War. A flight sergeant who always sang Ladona Emobale in the crewroom when they were getting dressed in their flying clothes had to put his left boot on before his right. If he forgot he had to take all his kit off and start again. Superstition was rampant on the station. The dead were legion and the gods had their own secret agenda.