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‘She won’t run out, Brigadier,’ Keselo assured Andar’s friend ‘If she wants so to happen, it will happen - even if it’s i ie hole in Gunda’s wall?’ Andar asked

‘As far as I know, Veltan’s going to attend to it, sir’

‘All by hiine that his tame thunderbolt will probably take care of it, sir’

‘How does anybody tame a thunderbolt?’

‘I really wouldn’t know, sir, but I have it on the very best authority that it was Veltan’s thunderbolt that blasted out that channel through the ice-zone that gave us access to the Land of Dhrall in about one single day Gunda’s wall’s very strong, but I’h to stand up in the face of that kind of power’

‘I’s that happen in this part of the world,’ Andar complained

‘You worry tooas they’re helping us It’s when they start helping our eneht want to consider a petition of protest’

Just after sunset when the servants of the Vlagh fell back to the two outer in to conceal the retreat of the Trogites and their local associates As the fog ca in, Commander Narasan ca those catapults to set fire to the bug-people turned out to be very effective, Andar,’ he said, ‘but it’s seriously reduced the aather We really have no way to know just exactly when those church aran’s defenses, so there’s a distinct possibility that we’ll need that veno-people back until those five armies arrive’

‘It’s not really that much of a problem, Narasan,’ Andar replied ‘Like you said, the native archers are ht in their tracks’

‘You’ve adjusted to the situation here in the Land of Dhrall much more quickly than I did when I first arrived, Andar When the native people told us e’d probably encounter up in that ravine, I started having nighte, Narasan,’ Andar replied ‘I don’t have to make those major decisions like you do All I have to do is assume that you knoe should do to defeat the enemy Any mistakes will be your fault, not mine’

‘Thanks a lot, Andar’

‘Don’t mention it,’ Andar replied blandly Then he squinted on down the slope ‘I’d say that the fog bank’s got us pretty well concealed now, Narasan Why don’t you go on back to Gunda’s hile I pull etting in htly offended

‘I’ll think about it,’ Andar replied ‘Drop back sometime when I’m not so busy’