The last word meant nothing to Varlik; his head was beginning to hurt. efastened herfield pants and crept back to her mattress to sink immediately again intodream-filled sleep. The lizards acted a little strangely afterwards, for afew minutes-scurried around enough more than usual to notice-but theygave us no reason to expect anything like this. I have no idea.
It took a moment to find his unwitting connection, aman who never imagined that someone like Tso-Ban existed, or the planetTyss. Then a son of the Ostrak family, Harden, decided to travel toTyss and see how T'swa mercenaries were trained; it seemed to him thatsomething of value might be learned there. The platoon, already distributed around the walls, turned; onefire team slipped into the kitchen, rifles ready. Jerym was optimistic that whateverthis special duty was, it would prove to be good.
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