***From the assembly, Voker went with Dak-So to the T'swa colonel's office. Varlik began to feel tension again, and it occurred to him towonder what the tension would be like if they all felt it, if it fed back fromman to man, building. By tomorrow. He'd overlooked theBird floaters.
She got up and took her tray tothe wash belt, then left, wondering if she really had any business doingwhat she'd proposed. Mostly the commodore watched hisinstruments, which after a bit told him that in real space there were amajor and a minor nodus adjacent to his ship's equivalent location inhyperspace. Historically, the Smoleni experience with mercenaries had been asvictims, not beneficiaries. Theplatoon would be concealed along the riverbank, watching for their chance,ready to drag their boats to the water, boats that locals had stashed forthem.
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