On the short flight to thecompound, she thought how odd it was, after yesterday, to be pulling sostrongly for the regiment to win this war game. To the envoy fromThe Archipelago it seemed somewhere between reflective and glum, butwith an underlying doggedness. He began to rousehimself mentally, took another of the mineral tablets he'd been issued forthis tropical mission, and drank the last of his water. Off duty it was, but theyhad to fire me for it.
The short straw wins. I may learn something there. If they let me stay here, he thought, I'll be functional in a week or two. Again he retargeted, one of the troopers signalling as if greater precisionwas needed.
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