Goddamn it, said another voice, dawn't shoot! Someone could hear! Shit! Who's to hear? I dawn't know and you dawn't neither. Ban-Shum grinned, his teeth still strong and white. The mortar men had expended most of their rounds before they saw aresponse: A long row of muzzle flashes, virtually simultaneous, flared fromthe base. The two officers left, talking as they walked down the corridor.
What do you want? she asked. What he did see was somefloating boat wreckage not yet out of sight downstream. A few Birds had obviously reached the edge and couldsee and shoot at the floaters. Then his feet touched down on anarrow twisting root a foot high, and his ankle turned, throwing him heavilyto the ground.
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