than eighteen hundred who'd landed on Kettle scant deks ago-they and ahandful still among the Birds, too badly injured to be moved. I was just thinking how weird it is that here I am, still alive. Jerym grinned. At first it was atlong range and not heavy, so not many men fell.
And there wassome truth to that. Jerym had been right: men differed, and the proper criterion wasbehavior, not emotion. The closest thing they haveto an authority is the religious/philosophical order of Ka-Shok, andKa-Shok exercises no power over anyone. Two more rockets struck it, and itbegan to fall slowly, spiraling now, while rockets exploded against twoother craft without apparent effect.
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