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Andar smiled ‘It’s just a symptom of a fairly coet over it - eventually’

‘You’re a cynic, Andar’

‘I know It’s quite possible that’s a symptom of still another disease, the one that’s called "old" Unfortunately, people don’t get over that one’

It was early that afternoon when the buckskin-clad archer Longbow led a sizeable party of native bowmen down the slope to join Narasan’s force in the breast-works, and that quite obviously brightened Cobow’s friend Red-Beard had given the aite archers, they were still fairly inept From what Andar had heard, the native boere muchthat bridge yet?’ Narasan asked the tall archer

‘They’re fairly close, I think,’ Longbow replied ‘Sorgan’s finished his trenches and barricades, so we’re ready for those church armies I think you should probably follow that plan you cah We can’t be co to take the church aran’s defenses, so you’d probably better continue to delay the creatures of the Wasteland until we’re more certain just exactly when our friends - who don’t know that they’re our friends - are going to reach Gunda’s wall’

‘We’re in a position to be fairly flexible here, Commander,’ Andar said ‘We can continue to hold each breast-work for two days, if it’s absolutely necessary, but if it starts to look like the church ar to arrive early, we can skip over a couple of our defense lines to ht there, Andar,’ Narasan agreed

‘Our army and theirs need to be closely coordinated,’ Andar added, ‘but, since their people are a little distracted right noe can take care of the coordination for the to spend all that gold they’ll have in their purses before very bow said with a broad siving Andar a speculative sort of look

At sunrise - as always - the voice of the Vlagh roared its co-warriors ca between the several now-abandoned breast-works The aite archers held back, but the far more skilled native bow accuracy, and the plodding, -ed to clamber over heaps of their dead coust

‘Actually, it’s about ten steps below idiocy, s, an idiot would be a genius’

‘Here co on top of the breastworks shouted

‘That’s odd,’ Danal noted ‘We didn’t bother with those poisoned stakes this time, and I was fairly sure that theoff the stakes’

‘Not entirely, Danal,’ Andar disagreed ‘Their shells also protect theraduated froet ready I’d say that it’s just about tih to the wonderful world of fire’

‘If that’s hoant ‘er, Cap’n, that’s hoe’ll do ‘er,’ Danal replied