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To try crossing any roadwould cost them. More combat personnel carriers were ported in. I'm simply proposing to reverse this again. Flatrounded stones about an inch or two across.

The difference was that the rifle had a cartridge in the chamber and thepistol didn't. Somehow it sounded more an order than suggestion. He'dscaled it off precisely on a detailed forestry map before he'd left Shelf Falls. When he sat down, though, it was Nufkarmwho asked the first question.