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There'd be time enough to coordinate with others,especially with the commanders of the ranger battalions, when theyapproached the Eel. Let him think I can't, he told himself. ss the gravel pan where the only midday movement was a drill birdflying from thorn jug to thorn jug, to listen and peep, peck and swallow. OccasionallyKonni Wenter joined them, twice with a torpid, almost unspeaking BertolBakkis, his eyes opaque with seeming disinterest.

Then the children began to play again. They knaw better'n to take liberties with me. My first night here. Fingas's eyes sharpened.