Varlik had seen a T'swi once, up close: a heavysetelderly man with skin incredibly dark, the color of a blued gun barrel;straight, Then the T'swa almost stopped shooting, and he realized that the nearbygunfire had been theirs, that Bin had not been answering it but adding toit. Jerym gave them time totake positions, beginning some two hundred yards up the road, countingoff the necessary seconds in his mind. Rules like those don't apply here, he said.
Then they sat together in the ashes, waiting. When you came here, I knew youwere going to be good. Then Lady Durslan-she told me to call her Melsa; isn't thatmarvelous?-Melsa asked if I was free tomorrow, and when I told her I was,she invited me to come with you. I spent thefirst day of maneuvers in the forest with 3rd Platoon of F Company, shesaid.
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