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Council that evening was humming with the energy of C.R.C.’s message. People could barely keep quiet enough to hear the discussion up front between Lenya and Angel—until it got loud. The argument was over whether or not to send out advance teams of our soldiers to survey and sweep the long forest route to Philadelphia ahead of the rest of us. Lenya was firm that we should. She said the reasons were so obvious even a fool could see them.
“Well, then, it’s a fool’s idea,” said Angel. “Our forces aren’t big enough to split. And we can’t afford to lose a single soldier. I won’t lose one. We’ll be flanked by the freemen from the other villages all the way down and in radio contact—thanks to Hassan and his team. You’re thinking like a woman. All cunning, no strategy.”
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