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This war game with the army's8th Heavy Infantry Brigade was real enough that she suddenly realizedwhat the regiment was all about. Warden rounded it, and the headlights showedthem Esenrok not more than forty yards ahead. Most of thebuildings were single-storied; some were shed-like, a few mere roofswithout walls. Any questions? There weren't.

Otherwise he wouldn't have learned what he had, wouldn't havediscovered that he could survive alone. He sat down again. As it was, everything had turnedout well. In one of them, Jerym had thrown himself on it to save him, and ithad exploded.