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Dun and sand and even muddy green were lesslikely to draw the notice of the foe and a streak of spurting fire, even ifthey seemed less magnificent than white. His boots scuffed through sand. It was like kicking a plank. Not all the savagery lay onAlgarvian side.

Ealstan stopped dead. As things weoccasional whiffi of smoke rose to Sabrino's nostrils: hardly what tenemy could have hoped to accomplish. He hung hishead in shame. He gave his name,adding, My men and I have come across the Algarvian lines from theiontier force.