Minutes later he heard another vehicle coming, from ahead this time, andagain he hid, now behind a convenient roadside deck of logs. Then his attention was trapped again bythe travail of running. He echoed it, reached out, and theyclasped in the daring new style in which the couple dances close together. And surely its captainhad noticed that the homing beacon was missing.
A floater raised under fire, its rate oflift like a leap, angling up and away. The other man grabbed her roughly by an arm, shoved, andthey began to follow the men who'd run off, toward the Klestronu camp. Theexpression that met them now was stiff and guarded. After that, the explosions were more or lesscontinuous.
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