Life is good, the Marquis thought, reaching for the handle of the ornate double door out front. The trailseemed well-worn, to Cano, as if the people of the village followed it regularly to the rectangularlycarved opening in the mountainside. Below, two crewman refueled a Cricket as a small team of fourrearmed a Finch, easing rockets into the nineteen round outboard pods and winding . He pointed to one of his grinningmen, then to another, and made a slight finger motion in the direction from which the sound had come.
Even as theFinches were destroying the place's livelihood, helicopters landed on the three landward sides and begandisgorging heavily armed and armored men. It's worse than I imagined, Robinson muttered, after scanning the first few lines of what appearedto be the only non-routine message among the group. You can take your blindfolds off now, said the guide. Between ships owned but leased elsewhere, and some of those passingthrough four or five or, in one case, eve
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