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Er - not with suchcertainty, perhaps. She pouted. 66Harry Turtledove Neither soldier had spoken loudly; the colonel's tent lay only fifteenor twenty feet away. He smelled it, as a hound would.

A long line of boys already snaked out of the office. There is an opening at theother end. Gemot complained about the porridge and cheese and black bread andalmonds and salted olives they got to eat. He wasn't desperate enough to dothat, not yet.