Faint daylight penetrated the snow. Once a band of small piglike animals had entered the glade, where theyseemed to be rooting up tubers or mushrooms. Crewswere out with beam saws, clearing the ground for 200 yards out, savingthe more useful lengths of wood for use in bunker construction. It made so much sense to Varlik that his earlier guardedness seemedincomprehensible and petty.
That doesn't sound easy to me. Presumably it derived from the rigors ofhard labor in Terfreya's gravity of 1. For Burnt Woodswas far away from combat, and Jerym wouldn't be there. And it seemed quite possible that the Klestronuflagship by itself was too strong for anything the Confederation could sendto protect the regiment's troopship.
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