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From there it's up to you-your wits and your guts. Tain arrowed to Jerym,shaking off invitations as she went. The figure now was thirty to fifty thousand, withno confidence that further upward revisions wouldn't be necessary. He raised his camera above the ditch'sshoulder, panning, using his monitor now, seeing what he was capturingon his cube.

Then the regiment left their places, steppingover benches, some headed for the T'swa, some for the civilians near herin the back. Back in his command seat, Tarimenloku had called onto the screen a holoof the marine base, magnified to look as if seen from 10,000 feet. And a letter cube to Mauen. Their fire allowed much of the battalion to get across before theT'swa could direct appreciable fire at them, and at such long range, in theirwhite uniforms, not many were hit.