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I askedSergeant Bahn the same question once, and that's pretty much what hesaid. The next ten or fifteen minutes alternated between relatively quiet inaction,brief outbursts of firing, and sporadic heavy explosions. Firstplatoon had been interviewed too, most or all of it; it wouldn't have beenthem. Jerym was there, and Esenrok, the latter with a bandage on hisface and no rifle.

Most of it was woods, but the endthey were coming to was grassy, like a lawn with shade trees. But there will not be amidnighter tonight. Hehadn't known any of the dead men closely, couldn't even place whoOlkerfel was, but a deep grief welled up in him, a grief somehow too dry tofind release in tears. Theexceptions are certain high mountains and plateaus in the arid zone,where the climate tends to be quite pleasant and the landscape ruggedlyattractive.