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On the roof of the warehouse, the Amrapake sat up, stretched his mouth in a smile with satisfaction but no humor in it. “Chavash! The yatz is actually getting somewhere.”


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“K’lann!” Reyna leapt away from the parapet and ran for the stairs.

Thammir caught his arm, jerked him around. “Rey, don’t be an idiot. You can’t do anything.”

Reyna swore, wrenched himself loose and slammed into Thammir who wrapped his long arms about him and yelled in his ear, “Rey! It’s nonsense. Goandee, Furrah, help me hold him.”

Reyna relaxed, seemed to listen as Thammir went on. “The Barrier. You can’t get through that, and even if you could, there’s the army. You know what they’d do to any Salagaum they got their hands on.”

Their hands loosened as Reyna sighed, let his head fall forward. With a sudden burst of effort he broke free and was running down the stairs before they could regroup.

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