Sitting high in the grandstand, Centaine watched Shasa play one of themost inspired games of his career, but with despair in her heart knewthat it was still not good enough. The defence had tried to trip him on his description ofthe shooting of the horses and the grenade attack, but had swiftlysen He felt himselfsuffocating, crushed by the thought of the enormous weight of rock abovehim, his ears popping and crackling at the pressure, a mile and thenanother mile straight down into the earth. And he had drawn a map of the road to it.
Then he raised himself to hisknees and began crawling forward towards the leading edge of the roof. Yes, Centaine answered as softly. The orders of society were strictlyobserved on the H'ani Mine. Despite the fever heat and the darkness in his head, despite hisdesperate circumstances, he still found a bitter-sweet admiration forher.
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