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A commander, Karlsarm, issues precise orders to move his company toward Gallows Wood while keeping specialized “fire bees” restrained until a personal signal. The plan balances stealth, secret tactics, and battlefield timing as scouts assess the enemy’s aerial support and subordinates debate whether to risk revealing advantages.","Jerry eBooks  \nNo copyright  2026 by Jerry eBooks  \nNo rights reserved. All parts of this book may be reproduced in any form and by any means for any purpose without any prior written consent of anyone.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nGalaxy December 1967  \nVol. 26, No. 2  \nCustom eBook created by Jerry eBooks March 2026  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nI  \n“N  \no dragons are flying—” Karlsarm looked up. The fog around him was as yet thin enough that  \nhe could glimpse the messenger. Its wings sickled across night-blue and those few stars—like diamond Spica and ember Betelgeuse—which were too bright and near to be veiled. So deep was the stillness that he heard the messenger’s feathers rustle.  \n“Good,” he murmured. “As I hoped.” Louder: “Inform Mistress Jenith that she can get safely across open ground now. She is to advance her company to Gallows Wood on the double. There let someone keep watch from a treetop, but do not release the fire bees without my signal.  \nWhatever happens.”  \nThe sweet, unhuman voice of the messenger trilled back his order.  \n“Correct,” Karlsarm said. The messenger wheeled and flew northward.  \n“What was that?” Wolf asked.  \n“Enemy hasn’t got anyone aloft, far as Rowlan’s scouts can tell,” Karlsarm replied. “I instructed—”  \n“Yes, yes,” growled his lieutenant. “I do know Anglic, if not bird language. But are you sure you want to keep Jenith’s little friends in reserve? We might have no casualties at all if they went in our van.”  \n“But we’d have given away another secret. And we may very badly want a surprise to spring, one of these times. You go tell Mistress Randa the main body needs maximum  \ncover. I’m after a last personal look. When I get back, we’ll charge.”  \nWolf nodded. He was a rangy man, harsh-faced, his yellow hair braided. His fringed leather suit did not mark him off for what he was, nor did his weapons; dirk and tomahawk were an ordinary choice. But the two great hellhounds that padded black at his heels could only have followed the Grand Packmaster of the Windhook.  \nHe vanished into fog and shadow. Karlsarm loped forward. He saw none of his hundreds, but he sensed them in more primitive ways. The mist patch that hid them grew tenuous with distance, until it lay behind the captain. He stopped, shadow-roofed by a lone sail tree, and peered before and around him.  \nT hey had had the coastal marshes to conceal them over most of their route. The climb by night,  \nhowever, straight up Onyx Heights, had required full moonlight if men were not to fall and shatter themselves. This meant virtually no moon on the second night, when they entered the cultivated part of the plateau. But with asidereal period of two and and a third days, Selene rose nearly full again, not long after the third sundown, and waxed as it crossed the sky. At present it was hardly past maximum, a dented disk flooding the land with iciness. Karlsarm felt naked to the eyes of his enemies.  \nNone seemed aware of him, though. Fields undulated away to a flat eastern horizon, kilometer after kilometer. They were planted in rye, silvery and silent under the moon, sweet-smelling where feet had crushed it. Far off bulked a building, but it was dark; probably nothing slept within except machines. The fact that agriculture took place entirely on robotized latifundia made the countryside  \nthinly populated. Hence the possibility existed for Karlsarm of leading his people unobserved across it after sunset—toa five-kilometer distance from Domkirk.  \nEven this near, the city looked small. It was the least of the Nine, housing only about fifty thousand, and it was the second oldest, buildings huddled close together and much construction underground in the manner of pioneer settlements. Aside from streets, its mass was largely unilluminated. They were sober folk here who went early to bed. In places windows gleamed yellow. 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