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As the sun rose up over the ridge-line to the east, Rabbit came up the steps to the top of the wall ‘Can you see Keselo down there?’ he asked ‘I don’t really have very ite friends, so I don’t want to lose him’

‘He’s over on the left side of what Narasan calls the "breastworks" Narasan says that it’s fairly standard practice to sort of ease beginning soldiers into theto work out all that well, Longbow,’ the little Maag said dubiously ‘If you want to make a warrior out of soer than athered up are, and the pay needs to be better’

‘We’ll see’

There were h barricades laid out across the slope that ran down to the Wasteland, and Narasan’s soldiers - along with Veltan’s far the farthest one away frobow and his little friend weren’t able to see very ites weren’t really having too rown snake- about noon, another of those co roars came from quite so eneed desert

‘Now that’s so we never saw back in the ravine,’ Rabbit said ‘I thought that the bug-people were too stupid to even kno to turn and run’

‘Maybe they learned a few things in the ravine,’ Longbow suggested

‘I thought you had to have brains to learn,’ Rabbit scoffed, ‘and bugs don’t have brains, do they?’

‘They do have a brain, little friend,’ Longbow disagreed, ‘but they don’t carry it around with theh - orMaybe the "over servants away isn’t really a good way to win a war’

The golden summer afternoon wore on, and there were no further attacks by the servants of the Vlagh The somewhat tentative nature of this first attack seey It was increasingly obvious that bow’s suspicion that their enemy had in some sense come to realize that sheer brute force had little chance of success

‘I don’t like this at all, Narasan,’ Gunda ad to think - even a little bit - we could be in a lot of trouble here The ainst back in the ravine weren’t really clever enough to be able to tell night froer ones? I don’t know If one of them just happens to pick up a rock and throw it at us, we’re looking at an entirely different war’

‘You’re being obvious, Gunda,’ Narasan observed ‘For right now, about all we can do is re at all new and different, we’ll have to come up ays to deal with it - in a hurry, e when Keselo came on up to the wall He quickly clibow and the others on top of the central tower

‘The eneer this tiht that was the case,’ Narasan replied ‘Did you notice any other peculiarities?’

‘They’re just a little aard, sir, and they can’t move quite as fast as the smaller ones back in the ravine’