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She wondered about the Plaid Koerno fighters who had arrived to attack the prison and free the prisoners Apart frouns, their weapons looked antique There was a lot of talk about being just as dead if you were hit by bullets or vaporised by a ray gun That was just talkand very dangerous talk

Too much booze had been drunk The ordinary people were allowed booze It was soly, Allain didn't booze Nor did Bryn They sood But, like sex, that was forbidden on active duty

Since Allain was always on active duty, he wouldn't be seeing much of either Liala wondered about Bryn He was new to active duty Perhaps he smoked But there wouldn't have beenat least, not until she cairls of Bryn's age in his village and he wasn't allowed to travel outside

She returned her attention to the trolls waiting to board the pod They looked green but their real colour was silvery blue Blue was the guardians' colour and the trolls were hts returned to Breada She often thought about her The guardians told terrible lies You doubted most of what they said but were sucked in by some of it One of their lies was about the sirens They said the girls anton hussies who sold their bodies to the highest bidder

That wasn't true The sirens were innocent girls like Breada The trolls killed her father and carried her off so her body could be used as a surrogate by an ancient ny could suuardians more than that

Obscene was the word Father used to describe theuardians evil Father said evil didn't tell you ainst enemies Obscene was different It described people who took as good and perverted it to serve their own selfish desires

Her attention returned to the trolls They had boarded the pod and were preparing to ined the display on the control board that Crispin and Peter were viewing in the marine research laboratory The patrol post, security pod, trolls and all other assets belonging to the guardians would be coloured blue

At soe the pod to pink That would send a powerfulthe cheer appear blue to them It would look pink and that would launch them into a violent frenzy of destruction