At any rate, there you have it. Evenbefore they'd left the ditch, Romlar had been aware by the sound thatthere was fighting in the village. The rest of the country was forest, lakes, and peat bogs,broken here and there by small farm settlements which became fewer as one went farther north. It sat on a coastal plain, mostly on an ancientriver terrace above the Lok-Sanu River, out of reach of the infrequentfloodwaters.
Not calm-seeming, hetold himself. Quit your stallin'! the overseer boomed. My sister, Jerym said. At almost the moment theystopped, the floodlamps of the ship flicked off, leaving the plain indarkness.
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