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Mellis looked younger thanalmost anyone else in the platoon, though at sixteen he was as big asmost. Originally it had been planned that the regiment would travel by ship toTerfreya, after the equinox, for a year of training there. Thanks, she said. Sergeant, keep him here for a few minutes.

First squad all present, Sir! snapped Sergeant Bahn, and the sergeantsof the second, third, and fourth squads followed suit. According to Kusu, this wouldn't have been an exceptionally hazardousaction against enemy they'd faced on other worlds, but the Birds werespecial. 33It was a lovely late-spring day-one might say presolstice summer-whenLord Kristal called Wellem Bosler. I feel a lot better now, said Varlik.