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the jumpsuit with a more critical eye. "Uniform? What
does the patch mean?"

"It's our badge. The Iregara adopted it from Earth, I'm
told, because they like the concept it embodies, but I've
never asked how they apply the complementary coexistence
of opposites to police work.

"The three of you will be sleeping in detention room

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Twenty until you find a place to live. That's in A wing.
The exercise room is on the way. Report there for outfit-
ting."

They headed in the direction she pointed. A short way
down A wing's central corridor they found the exercise
room. The door bore an Egarad character but under it
someone had stuck a piece of tape lettered in English. In-
side, more officers in green and umber piled their arms full
of equipment and uniforms, including an equipment belt
with a sidearm sleeper and the smallest belt-buckle com-
puter tie-in Ten had ever seen.

"Do the uniforms all fit so tight?" Ten asked.

"Yes," one of the officers replied. "Our new bosses don't
like to waste fabric. It offends you?**

Ten hesitated. He rather liked it, as a matter of fact,
though he could well imagine how a high holy would con-
demn it as lewd. "I'm just wondering how I'm going to put
an undersuit beneath it."

"You don't need to. The fabric has a high enough insula-
tion quotient to keep you warm in about any weather
here."

Ten frowned. "How about alive?" He was not about to
work anywhere, even here, without the protection of a par-
agee shield, and the undersuit contained the wiring for gen-
erating the deflective field.

"Paragee circuits are woven right into the uniform.
You'll find the control plate in front under the collar.
From here you report across the corridor to the infir-
mary.**

Ten struggled across the corridor with the equipment and