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had no pleasure of them.

You mix the whole crowd up and squeeze them dry, you could not
come up with two

ounces of sense of humor.

There used to be a lot more of them than there are now but they
keep getting

themselves killed. They are bone crazy, the whole lot. For them the
Company is a

religion. Only their Company is not the Black Company of the Old
Crew. That

becomes more apparent almost by the hour.

All Nar stand more than six feet tall. All Nar run like the wind and
leap like

gazelles. Mogaba chose only the most athletic and warriorly to join
the quest

for Khatovar. All the Nar are quick as cats and strong as gorillas. All
the Nar

use their weapons like they were born with them in their hands.

The rest? The ones who call themselves the Old Crew? Yeah. It is
true. The

Company is more than a job. If it was just a job, just selling swords
to whoever

would pay, the Black Company would not be in this part of the
world. There was

work a plenty in the north. The world never lacks for potentates who
want to

bully their subjects or neighbors.

The Company is family for those who belong. The Company is
home. The Company is

a nation of outcasts, alone and defying the whole world.

Now the Company is trying to complete its cycle of life. It is on a