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distance than that for physical qualification every month,
but carrying luggage in this gravity made it another matter.

"It's called a skyrail here," Roban said.

"And we're supposed to have a free ride, so let's us take
advantage of it." Pol headed for the skyrail platform.

Following, Ten wondered if PoFs drawl were really that
heavy, or had been acquired, like so much ^ocal color"
since the Regionalization craze swept the United States of
North America.

They boarded the next tram south, and as it climbed the
hills and followed the crest. Ten saw D'shenegar at last
Rather than a city, however, it looked like a collection of tiny
villages nestled among the hills, all separated from one an'
other by a kilometer or more of fields and woods, linked
only by narrow paths and the shining silver strands of the
skyrail. The villages stretched east to the sea and to the
horizon in all other directions, which made them a very
imposing collection. They looked peaceful, too, with noth-
ing visible to suggest a desperate people under siege.

"How big do y*all suppose it is?" Pol asked,

"Fifty klicks square," Roban replied promptly.

Twenty-five hundred square kilometers for three
hundred thousand people? Ten whistled. That was spread-
ing them tbint

"It's going to be a mighty big area to patrol," Pol said.

The happy light m Roban's eyes faded. He grimaced.
*Td planned an my life to come here some day . . . but I
never dreamed it would be to work as a police officer."

"I think everyone was surprised when the Iregara started
advertising for leos,** Ten said. "What did you think when
me notice went up in your department?"

*That it was a mistake, or a joke. I thought it was im-
possible for telepatha to have crime.'"

Maybe they never used to. Ten reflected, but that had
changed. "You applied anyway?*'

Roban gazed out the window. "The job was on Egar."
After a moment he looked around at Ten. "What about