She paged Bosler while Kristal waited, and when therestill was no response, told His Lordship that Bosler must be at the ghao, asmall, rather Pagoda-like building on the islet in Gouer Cove. The trees along the banks and roads and around thefarmsteads were mostly bare. Warden sprang up beside him, snatched the bomb, and jumpeddown again. The people who provided it would have to beconsidered as somehow outside of Standard Technology, and thus free ofthe stigma of apostasy.
What, specifically, could the T'swa do that the army can't? Varlik asked. He would make a point of welcoming thisregiment as valuable friends, and hope its men behaved decently. Thesquad was down to six T'swa, two of them wounded. An imperial invasion fleet is on its way, little more thantwo years distant.
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