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and not to let yourself get killed. Which was how theLegio del Cid became a self-insurer. Show them, Patricio, she said. One of the men of the breach teamhad caught his foot on the wire and fallen face down.

Is your pride more important than that? Sada inhaled deeply. It's not particularly cheap,though. Fighting among the powers of that world, especially those ofthe continent of Taurus, had been endemic since at least the beginningof the 3^rd Century, AC. One of the effects of that pride is a tendency notto look outside myself or whatever group I control for help when Ineed it.