Roughly thirty percent of thepeople on Iryala, an aging thirty percent, had received the ungeldedSacrament, and in the Confederation sector overall, the percentage wasconsiderably higher. It was the length of the gurney that made it conspicuous: The foot endbegan to appear in front of Bosler while the rest was still on the runway. The Confederation, at least itsprincipal worlds, has its nobility. Nearing it, it seemed to him much the same as any regimental campmight be.
Someone whistled a shrill retreat order, and the troopers rose almost asone, moving back into the woods. Meanwhile the Klestronu commodore doesn't realize how vast Garthidspace is. Where had it come from? Why hadn't they runinto it before?His instruments and sentry craft hadn't reported any ships enteringreal-space, nor approaching this world from elsewhere in the system. Instead she simply repeated the question: What else don't you get askedto do? He croaked the words: To lead.
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