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up soundlessly at them.

All in all, Maro thought, it was not the most hospitable place he had ever seen.

He estimated their speed at around five hundred klicks, based on his own
experience flying low-level atmospheric craft. At that rate, the swamp went on
for a damned long way before it gave way to dry land. But when the change in
terrain finally occurred, Maro's jaw droppedтАФthe land was desert, with only a
few scrubby bushes dotting wind-patterned sand dunes. What kind of ecology
would allow desert next to swamp that way? It didn't make any sense. It
shouldn't exist.

Pig laughed, a grunting sound. "You like that? The whole fucking planet is that
way, pretty boy. Nobody has ever escaped from the Cage, but if they did, they'd
be dead fast. Everything down there would just as soon kill you as look at you.
You got a one-way ticket to hell."

Maro leaned back in his seat, still not speaking. The thincris shimmered and
darkened a little, filtering out the hot sunshine but staying clear enough for him
to see the surface below.

Snake said, "Pretty boy like you's gonna get eaten up by the scum in the Cage,
you copy? But I might put in a good word for you with some of the guards, make
it easier on youтАФif you want to be nice to me."

The last was said in a suggestive tone. Maro turned to stare at Pig. The guard
dropped one fat hand to his crotch and massaged himself through the gray
thinskin uniform. He leered at Maro, and the effect was so comical that the
prisoner almost laughed. He knew he should keep his mouth shut, should just let

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it pass like all of Pig's other crude attemptsтАФbut he couldn't resist.

"I'd rather sleep with a genitonecrotic dog," Maro said.

The leer vanished, and Pig stood, doubling his fists.

Way to go, Dain, Maro told himself wearily. Now you get your ass kicked for
letting your mouth fly. Just like usualтАж