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Lamons saw him with it, scowled only briefly, then continued. They movedsilently to the boiler room door, heat flowing sluggishly from it as from theentrance to hell. Indeed, the Confederation numbers the yearsof its calendar from Pertunis's coronation. Also he hadn't done the Ostrak Procedures.

Afternoon, he said. They worked furiously; it was to be finished bymidnight. At that point, Lamons interrupted. 12At the Aromanis Base of the Orlanthan Counterinsurgency Army, theworking day began at 05.