”“Who else is there?”The silence ended with fake breathing and an exasperated voice. In spite of many difficulties they made it safely. “So he knew you weren’t holding out on him. He dug a deep hole in the half-frozen peat with his bare hands, under an old tree stump.
”Kolzak turned his back on the knife and went outside. Hanh was right, she could have made it work: it would have been hers, perfect, praised—remembered in the centuries to come, used as inspiration by hundreds of other Grand Masters. Their discipline had not faltered, even while the majority of the force was already orchestrating a response to the Melidan assault on the other side of the encampment. ____, “The Possession of Paavo Deshin,” Analog, January/February.
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