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Lotta knew a child at home like they'd been talking about: her olderbrother Jerym. It was orderly in themilitary manner, but more personal than she'd expected. In her place was what seemed a rectangularhole in the local reality, a door with the gate for its frame. Trevelos's discomfort was tangible.

Bosler himself had done the last twointerviews on Romlar; the procedures needed were beyond Lotta's trainingand experience. The north was too big, too wild, and theSmoleni could not be pinned down. On the ground he removed the heavy canvas coveralls, the masked crashhelmet, and the steel-arched forest jump boots, then d He was careful not to exercise his authority beyond necessity.