And clean. The grooves for anchoring those gates and the stones in which they had been chiseled were swept clean. A full squad of men-twelve or more in gray leathers-patrolled the gate inspecting each traveler entering.

Some I five hundred miles from Sector Twelve General Hospital the wreck which was its reason for coming held gently against the hull within the field of its hyperdrive generators. At this distance the vast brilliantly lit structure which floated in interstellar space at the galactic rim was only a dim blur of light but that was because the Monitor Captain had had a close decision to make. Buried somewhere.
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World was more frightening than jail in some ways. Maia was only now coming to realize how she had been crippled by being a twin. Rather than the advantage she had imagined it to be that accident of biology had let her live in fantasies assuming there would always be someone to put her back against. Other summer girls left home knowing the truth that no plan no friendship no talent would ever by itself make your dreams come true. For the rest you needed luck. After having ridden most of the day and half the night they made camp once more in the shelter of a gully. Kiel managed to start a fire with sticks gathered near the bone-dry watercourse. Except for cups of hot tea they ate supper cold from the dwindling larder in their saddlebags. As the others made ready for bed Renna gathered several small items from his blue pouch. One was a slender brush of a kind Maia had never seen before. He also picked up a camp spade a canteen and takawq leaves.
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