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The footsteps in the snow led froe pair of shoulders and recognised the characteristic shape of a death troll The creature had no right to be there The reen area and death trolls were forbidden to enter green areas under any circu troll behaviour and that was aapart Crispin wasn't the only one ta with the system Others were and for a variety of reasons

The carnival trucks hadn't been coded green by accident The trolls hadn't erected a barrier across the highway by accident The guardians were fighting one another So the resistance movement and others were opposed to it

Which ca to?

To creature out at the first opportunity A single blast with his ray gun was all that was needed The troll would have to show itself again and would be an easy target But killing it could be a bad mistake Liala and Bryn had killed a creature which had been sent to protect theuardians' ultiot desperate they sent the brutes weren't like ordinary trolls You couldn'tpieces on a board

They looked crude and that gave the i could be further froates They were the bodily extensions of brains in jars When you uardian with hundreds of years fighting experience

An ally could be couardian could have chosen a death troll as his surrogate for the mission That would be an obvious choice and the troll couldn't just turn up It would have to sneak in to avoid detection

Right now, it was threading its way through theto the computer room Tom made a dash for a stairway and padded up it as silently as possible He came face-to-face with the troll at the top

The encounter appeared to be friendly In so far as death trolls are capable of a s unfriendly about the way it spoke

'Professor I expected to see you'

Toain, Doctor'

The troll seemed surprised

'You knoho I a device'