To Warden's amusement, Jerym had kepttrack of their progress on his mapbook, using compass and landmarks,just in case. He wondered if Mellis would still be a whiner when he came out. The door opened and two youths slipped out, notseeing Dao and Carrmak at first. It had been a good day and a bad one: Earlier, word had come of the successful assault on theenemy force surrounding the cadets, and of the cadets' successful escapewithout further casualties.
And a Confederation takeover would ruin every familyinvolved in top government levels; it had happened before, elsewhere. Varlik looked at the T'swi, this one a man smaller than himself, withartist's hands. It was attached to his field belt, and when the batterydied he would throw the thing away, replace the whole unit from his pack. It may not be Standard, but I'll bet here it works just fine.
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