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A fragment bit him and he yelped, sat downabruptly in the snow and rolled backward, grabbing at his right arm. He spat again, shrugging. A man in white uniform ran from behind thehouse across the street, and for just a moment Belser thought it was oneof the Iryalans. And noticing, stilled it with aT'sel order to himself: Turn around and look at you.

There were more big explosionssomewhere. All right. He couldn'tknow that Romlar, hedging his intuition, had left the Iryalan 2nd Battalionat Burnt Woods, in case This place must be as loud as the sawmill, Varlik thought.