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<div style="text-indent: 20px; margin: 0; padding:0;">They were closing in. | <div style="text-indent: 20px; margin: 0; padding:0;">They were closing in. | ||
The three watchers stood on an arête, 4,000 metres above the plain | The three watchers stood on an arête, 4,000 metres above the plain, the tallest shrouded in a billowing canopy. The outriders either side of him straddled idling dirt bikes. | ||
They took it all in. They scanned the Settlement. Aside from a curlicue of smoke drifting up from the central [[boilerplate]] processing complex, all was quiet. The seven gaunt baffle-towers that ringed the citadel remained dark. | They took it all in. They scanned the Settlement. Aside from a curlicue of smoke drifting up from the central [[boilerplate]] processing complex, all was quiet. The seven gaunt baffle-towers that ringed the citadel remained dark. |