The onlyalternative was to go through the woods, which would slow them to noadvantage unless they swung far enough from the road to avoid possibleambush. That surprised him. A wall of rainwas sweeping from the southwest across the steppe, its murmur gainingforce. They had a few guards around the borders ofcamp-limited-service Smoleni reservists-but that was all.
Then the ground shook, and again, and again, the explosions overlapping like a string of monstrous lady-fingers as ordnance bunkers blew. The construction site was just ahead along the upper edge of a longdeclivity. e; dictating draft commentary; andoutlining a plan to get the additional material she deemed necessary. Along the road, the forest canopywas mostly of deciduous trees that let the moonlight through, with hereand there tall evergreens, their thick tops variously oval or pyramidal orragged blacknesses.
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