“He understood it. We would talk later. For the moment he said, “You told me to keep an eye on them.” Swan reached me a moment later. “Gods, you guys move fast. I’m shot.” He made an obscene gesture at the sky. “We leave five minutes after you and find out you had time to take a couple of breaks and still stay ahead of us.” He shook his head. “Bunch of iron men. Told you I wasn’t cut put for this crap, Cordy.” “Where is everybody?” Murgen asked. “I don’t know. We got ambushed. We got... separated.” Mather, Swan, and Blade exchanged glances. Swan asked, “Little brown guys? All wrinkly?” “You know them?” “We had a run-in with them when we were headed north. Man, I got me a brainstorm. We going to jaw, let’s do it out of the rain. My lumbago is killing me.” “Lumbago?” Mather asked.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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