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The morning was cold and crisp, with none of the damp rawness of the previous few days. I can smell it. Time is the great ally of the liar because when lies arerepeated long enough, the truth fades and is forgotten. We are no longer in grace.

Khagggun battle-speak. round, and in the last hour before first light they set about preparing themselves to takecontrol of the convoy. Their religion makes them stupid—stupid and blind. Often, in dark corridors or lying in bed late at night, she would hear a whisper ofthe wind, the creak of an un