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Then abruptly it changed, became an exultant battlecry,quick-paced, and the T'swa nearby rose up, rifles in hand, bayonets fixed,the captain vaulting over the fallen tree. The one who'd given orders looked him over, then drew a heavy-bladedknife and, stepping around Varlik, cut his hands free. Instead of sending a surgeon, Carnfor had sent ambulances totake men in emergency need to his field hospital, and to the small districthospital in Burnt Woods. The creatures near the cables adjusted quickly to their dangling presenceand, already alerted, less susceptibl

He'd never felt so alone, so abandoned. It's not supposed to make sense. Machine gun fire followed, also distant, swelled briefly, thenleveled off. Varlik contemplated the chart, and the things that had been said to him byDurslan, Usu, Kusu, Bin.