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You are wondering why I came, Cheldring said. With patience we will bring him down. To repair, or cannibalize for parts. He stood in the door, hands on the edge, looking out, his whole gutclenched.

I found out afterward there'd been machinegunners with the train, and they'd started shooting when they saw theT'swa. Kusu named them off as they passed. They're apt toleave us sitting there for a day without food, or have us get ambushed onthe way. But when twoguys are trying to prove something.