They'd just sat down whenElgen, in his role as butler, looked in without knocking. ut to Romlar's thinking, he had to be present at this action himself, toknow the result promptly, and as fully as possible. 5On Maragor the solstice was approaching, and the back-country village ofBurnt Woods was in deep spring. I did not ask him thatquestion to make him uncomfortable.
He hissed back, then moved ahead, the others following:his two platoons plus a dozen Smoleni noncoms along for the experience. Someone passed about seventy feet to his left, tall andslender, sinewy, wearing Bird loincloth and battle harness, anddisappeared out of his small field of vision. Itsdoors opened to floor nine, and another register faced him as he steppedout. It boomed andbanged, lightning pulsing, stabbing mountain ridges, punctuating adarkness otherwise absolute.
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