* Before long, some of them came to dislike others quitestrongly. By the time they'd reachedthe boulder-littered shore, the sun had set behind the ridge on the otherside of the river. For to her, theold stories of gods and demons seemed unreal in the world of heat anddrought, of hard labor beneath the stars, of bore-worms in the root crops. Jerym too got up, limbered his knees and joined his troopers, digesting what the T'swi hadsaid.
Still another came in, almostrecklessly swift, braking abruptly only a few yards above the ground, thensettling quickly among the debris to load. The next thing he knewwas the calling of forest birds, and his eyes opened to faint gray dawn. If anyone lags, obstructs progress in any way, I'll find otherduties for him. Abruptly they stopped firing, and the floater,rising, swung away and left.
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