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Romlar visualized the 3rd Rangers dropping two companies back to holdoff the T'swa, who had to press uphill against them, slow heavy work onsnowshoes. General, he said, I have never led an army. Another slow cloud hid the moons, and Karly moved forward smoothly butquickly till he came to the nearest Komarsi. I took it and the matches, and left him with Frenis in thebachelors' quarters.

His breath labored as if he'd been running upstairs. Varlik didn't feel right with the T'swa anymore. Koda looked away then, sitting calm and quiet, surveying the Orlanthangrassland, as if Varlik had been dismissed, and the rest of the way to theT'swa camp they said almost nothing to each other. When Bosler closed it, the bottomscraped dense carpet; there'd been no carpet, no floor covering at all, inthe waiting room or the corridor.