When they got up, they mustered beneath the trees with 1st Platoon,along with H Company's unwounded survivors. Gunfire yammered, and from somewhere, a Klestronit swepta rifle beam across the area. Koda laughed out loud, then turned to Varlik. After that, for a while,nothing seemed to be happening, and he lost track of time.
As they rode back to the T'swa camp, he felt cockier than he'd ever feltbefore in his life. Considerable materialremained on the unloading site, unattended now. And when the last stick had gone, an exhausted Varlik, chilled andshivering, slumped down on a bucket seat while one of the air crew closedthe troop door. We were recruits together as teenaged kids.
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