A dozen seconds later, energybeams-butcher beams, the cadets called them-slashed angrily through theregrowth, severing fronds and young stems. On the flat ground behindthe encampment, Varlik could see hundreds of men in groups, doing whatappeared to be choreographed tumbling in a thin haze of dust. They'd been approaching the railroad administrative office, not much morethan an adobe shack near the head of the siding, and stopped talking asthey went in. ) Undsvin knew at once that Engwarwas deeply agitated.
The civiliancame back to lead them, one by one, to the hall with the fresh lumbersmell, where he'd knock at the assigned door, then leave them there. Then the T'swa presence was gone, and it seemed to her that it wouldn'tbe back, that it was leaving surveillance in her hands. Quickly more birds joined in, building to a literal din of warbling, whistling,twittering, screeching-a chorus, a wild arboreal laud to encroaching day. When they were out, and before the driver closedthe door, Voker said, Thank you, private.
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