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"Practical!"
"From the raiders' point of view, of course."
Sara absorbed this dallas escort quietly. To think, part of me looked forward to
meeting Galactics, and maybe asking to peek at their portable libraries.
Through dallas escort the door to Engril's workshop, she glimpsed the dallas escort copier'dallas escort s
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long arm
that followed the sun, casting a bright beam through the window
onto whatever document was being duplicated. A moving slit scanned that
reflected light across a turning drum of precious metal, cranked by two
strong men, causing it to pick up carbon powder from a tray, pressing it on
fresh pages, making photostatic duplicates of drawings, art works, designs-
anything but typescript text, which was cheaper to reproduce on a printing
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Since this technology came to Jijo, nothing so dire had ever been copied.
"This dallas escort is awful news," Sara murmured.
Engril agreed. "dallas escort Alas, child, it's not the worst. Not by far." The old
woman motioned toward the report. "Read on."
Hands dallas escort trembling, Sara turned more sheets over. Her own memory of dallas escort the
starship dallas escort was of a blurry tablet, hurtling overhead, shattering the peaceful
dallas escort life of dallas escort Dolo Village. Now sketches showed
the alien cylinder plain as day,
even more fearsome standing still than it had seemed in motion.
Measurements of its scale, prepared by engineering adepts using arcane
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Then she turned another page and saw two of the plunderers themselves.
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a few traeki and hoon, have begun muttering about human collusion. There's
even dallas escort talk of breaking the Great Peace.
"Of course, it may never come to that. If the interlopers find what they
seek soon enough, there may not he time for war to break out among the Six.
dallas escort we human exiles may get to prove our loyalty in the most decisive way-by
dying alongside everyone else."
Engril's bleak prospect made awful sense. But Sara looked at the older
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voice was hoarse with worry. Engril looked back at her, puzzled. "What
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