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THAYU AND I GLANCED at each other, and then looked at Nicha.
What the hell? Did this mean that we could come with them?
The other Tamerians followed the first ones, ignoring us. They returned to marching in their straight lines, with serious faces, and acting as if we weren’t there.
I called out, “Come on, let’s go.”
I stepped into line with the rear part of the army. Thayu came with me, followed by the others.
The Tamerians did not even acknowledge us. They didn’t try to stop us either.
From close up, the bunker looked even more forbidding than it had in the view from the drone.
The wall that faced the frozen lake was quite high, and although there were windows, as we had seen, they were at least two or three floors off the ground. The door that slid open was itself more than t
