Without sitting, he rapped keys on his commset,calling the provost marshal's office, and arranged to have the corporaltaken away under guard. The council sat digesting this, all but Lanks, who still stood. She's married and has a child. He waited while they did, thenturned to Dak-So.
They'd known one another fortwenty years, he and the commodore. They'd worked with their hands fromchildhood, doing almost everything there was to do on the estates they'dbeen part of. The Birds were known to post lookouts,some with night scanners, in occasional tall ridgetop trees, so a floaterlanding could endanger an entire squad. PresidentHeber Lanks was a very tall, rawboned man who'd gained weight in middleage and now was losing it.
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