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That noise?

Sounds like Mogaba, the Nar and the First Legion rooting out
Shadowlanders

again. Some get inside almost every night. They are like field mice.
You just

can’t get rid of them all.

Found some the other day that had been in hiding since the
Company took the

city.

How about that smell out there? It was worse before the
Shadowlanders started

burying the bodies. Maybe a shovel was a little too complicated a
machine.

Those long mounds that radiate from the city like spokes have
corpses stacked

like cordwood inside. Sometimes they didn’t pile the dirt on deep
enough and the

gasses of corruption burst the mounds open. That’s when you
hope the wind is

blowing their way.

You see how positively they are thinking, all the not-yet-filled-
trenches they

are digging. A lot of the dirt goes into the ramps.

The elephants are the worst. They take forever to rot. They tried
burning them

once, but all that did was irritate the buzzards. So where they could
they just

dragged the bodies over and incorporated them into their ramps.

Who? The ugly little guy with the uglier hat? That is One-Eye. You
must have

been warned about him.