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Good! He looked them over again. This action was quite unprecedented, by imperial standards illogical andarguably illegal. The sound was stupendous, overwhelming, driving bothtroopers to their knees, hands over their ears. So- He held something up: the magazine froma pistol.

Then Kusu stood, raisedhis face, and made a querulous cry not unlike some from the trees,repeating it three times. Her interest in cominghere had grown out of her editor's comment that this regiment wassupposedly something quite different. But only two! Almost surely now only two of the Birds were left! Bin ledhim fleeing northward along the bottom a little distance, then angl After a few seconds, steps extruded, andthe door slid aside.