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Now they were looking down at tall grass-a variable stand ranging, heguessed, from waist high to taller than a man, and mostly sparse, withscattered denser clumps and patches. Varlik! It was Kusu; the big sergeant stepped from a tent as Varlik was returningfrom the showers. The word was that since the night of the GreatRaids, the Komarsi ran strong security patrols in the vicinity of theirbrigade bases. He could see nothing relevant that he'd missed earlier.

Do you have some thoughts on that? The colonel looked at it, frowning. My nameis Varlik Lormagen. And what his real reason might have been in suggesting they be herewith him. I can teleportobjects to Offside Base on Seeren if I hit a limb at a tangent, more or less.