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The current pushed her nose as she angled into it, her screw bitingwater, and she shoved her way upstream. They controlthe territory they need to win the war, win it by starving you out. They hadn't expectedthe Smoleni to muster the wagons and labor and energy to move thedumps the way they had. But it wasn't what he washere for.

Here they'd been issuedsnowshoes, and were learning to use them. Particularly since he knows that the Iryalans have been advising andtraining the Smoleni. A minute later he decided he'd quit too early: Dao had slowed the platoonto a walk. Roughly thirty percent of thepeople on Iryala, an aging thirty percent, had received the ungeldedSacrament, and in the Confederation sector overall, the percentage wasconsiderably higher.