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After brief self-identification, Kelromak had written that a large part of theKomarsi public-perhaps a majority-wer Now two ofthem, seeming perhaps five and seven years old, trotted barefoot onto thepowdery dirt to keep pace alongside. Besides that, they didn't know each other. Northward, a number of trucks had stopped short of the machine guns andunloaded their troops too.

Watching them almost hypnotized Kro;this, he realized, was the basis of the fighting skills he'd just seen. He'sengaged in maneuvers with them. TheseIryalans, on the other hand -he paused for effect- it is they who drove theout-sector invaders off Terfreya, and that as a green regiment with only ayear of training. He was recording constantlynow-even when the lobber rockets arced downward andstruck-commenting frequently for the audio pickup.