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For any number of reasons, but mostly financial, we can't dosome of the necessary dirty work. We'vebeen offered a long term contract to keep a legion here and to expandthat legion to roughly divisional strength. How about thosenew thermal sights? Not so good as the East's, maybe, but they wouldmake these much more effective tanks. He didn't even mentionsex.

There, things appeared to be going prettysmoothly. Aziz had never seen him before, but had heard enoughdescriptions to recognize the Blue Jinn. Architecturally it wasn't much, a dozen barrackssuitable for housing perhaps one thousand officers, centurions andmen, and a large ammunition storage facility. Halfway across the park Sada and his party turned left andfollowed a narrower, zigzagging section of the trench that led to theapartment building's basements.