He recorded themeating and talking-laughing despite the dead around them-and wished heunderstood Tyspi. That's right, Carrmak answered. How soon? A few minutes. Theprisoner's in the waitin' room, Colonel.
But he remembered the fear and paralysis he'd felt when theKomarsi had pushed the door open. Or maybe Lieutenant Alsnor; he ledhis platoon in repeated actions on Terfreya, and in time almost every manin it got killed. The handful of men still there werearrested and handcuffed. If the discontentwas to worsen substantially, pressure by the nobility and merchants mightwell result in a Komarsi offer of terms.
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