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The dowser's head bobbed up and down, very muas his rod was doing in his hand. The leaves the beam touched went sere and brown inan instant, as ifwinter had come all at once to that corner of the world. Such chill, gloomy weather perfectly fit Fernao's mood. They looked astonished that the Zuwayzin had cap-tured them instead of the other way round.

He at4 anyway, spooning up meat and boiled tubers, drinking a spin't362Harry Turtledovethe folk of Heshbon distilled from the tubers. Deadmen don't have a whole lot of fun. From everything the young captain could see, the wholeValmieran army rmight have been a man trying to fight back after gettinghit in the head with a club. Had we wanted a fool, a dunce, to lead the armies of Unkerlant restassured we could have found one.