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SOLDIERS LIVE by Glen Cook The Ninth Chronicle of the Black Company 1 An Abode of Ravens: When No Men Died Four years passed and no one died. Not of violence or hazard of the calling, anyway. Otto and Hagop did pass on within days of each other, of natural causes associated with aging, last year. A few weeks ago one Tam Duc, recruit in training, perished of the overconfident exuberance of youth. He fell into a crevasse while he and his lance brothers were riding their blankets down the long slick slope of the Tien Myuen glacier. There were a few others. But not a one by an unfriendly hand. Four years has to be a record, though not the sort often recalled in these Annals. That much peace is impossible to believe. Peace that prolonged becomes increasingly seductive. Many of us are old and tired and retain no youthful fire in the belly. But us old farts are not in charge anymore. And
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