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The horsesstood, heads hanging, and the men threw themselves down in any shadethey could find. If you had fallen! But I never fall, Colonel. about, and fostered the illusion that he had a plan of actionfor their release or, failing that, for their escape. The rest of the herd was rushing away in a tight brown mass down thevalley, the calves falling behind their dams.

The girls knelt before Hal and Aboli. He saw him in the back of the horde, keeping carefully out of the worstof it, screaming orders and threats at his men, his ferrety featurestwisted with malice. He countedseventeen and, at a glance, could tell that at least three wereunlikely to see tomorrow's dawn. Flurrien sac rum bene cognosco, Hal replied, and they clasped handsin the recognition grip of the Temple.