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Maybe the seam just split, Markooris said. Good, Voker said, and disconnected. He wondered if anyone but himself could hear it. We haveour method.

Jerym listened, engrossed. The gate was justahead. Sleep came nonetheless, to be broken by another shrill pattern ofhuman whistling that brought him awkwardly to his feet, sluggishly awareof hustling bodies. Others, in acluster, sprinted toward a second.