The butt-chewing occurred when someone suggested to Shiller that theyairlift troops to engage the enemy in the forest, causing him to expend hisammunition much faster. Because it was also feasible to desert now, hikewestward to the Raging River and cross it on a raft or stolen boat, or eventravel eastward to the border with Oselbent. Yesterday alone we had 20 killed on patrols. He was careful not to exercise his authority beyond necessity.
Thus the fringes weremuch less suited as lines of march than the central ridges, and it wasamong the fringe ridges that rendezvous were established. On each shift, two of the referees were ranking T'swa, or Voker anda T'swa, and two were senior army officers. The subcolonel was outranked. A second ship took shape above, and five minutes laterit rested some hundred yards from the first.
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