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‘They wouldn’t dare!’

‘Would you really like to bet your life on that, Adnari?’

The fat man looked back over his shoulder at the iulators will protect me, Jalkan,’ he declared

‘Did you want to bet your life on that as well?’ Jalkan de’s not with us anywas the one with the iron fist, and the other Regulators obeyed him out of terror, and then they terrorized the soldiers in our five arone now, so we can’t lock doors anyhtfully as a distinct possibility ca - or more probably, so very uncharacteristic First he’d carved out a bow, and the Maags had never been very interested in archery Then the little hter of any and all church soldiers who broke ranks and tried to run on ahead of the arold before their comrades did And then Rabbit, who should at best have been a rank a dead in his tracks with a single arrow

‘I’d say that we’ve definitely got so on here lately,’ Veltanup to Veltan froe and reached the riold!’

Veltan glanced to the north across the grassy basin There were a few yellow-speckled crags jutting up out of the Wasteland, but the real ‘sea of gold’ lay soe and Gunda’s wall It should not be visible fro, and out in plain view

There were a couple of very unlikely possibilities thatthat should be coht there to be seen On a few occasions, Veltan had encountered s, but always in the past, they’d been libow’s friend is very creative,’ Veltan rin

‘I really wish you wouldn’t do that, Veltan,’ Sorgan Hook-Beak complained when Veltan’s pet deposited him no more than a few feet away from the pirate ‘It almost scares an,’ Veltan promised, ‘but I don’t think she’ll listen She loves to startle people’ He looked down into Sorgan’s third trench ‘I see that you’re still planting stakes,’ he noted

‘It works out pretty well, Veltan,’ Sorgan said ‘The whole idea here is to slon the church Trogs, and it takes the the stakes up’ Then he chuckled ‘We’ve been cheating just a bit, though’

‘Cheating?’

‘We don’t waste venos creep across the trenches on their hands and knees, very carefully digging up stakes that aren’t really anything but bare wood-sticks As long as they believe that the stakes will kill theht want to change the rules, Sorgan,’ Veltan suggested ‘The last church army has finally made it up to the rim Now that they’re all up here where they’re supposed to be, it’s tio say hello to the bug-people’