They were spreading out in a vee, the foremost heading for the imperial center, the laggards aiming for the flanks. But as the heat of that feeling spread out among them all, it illuminated within each individual the same hard, diamondlike core of decision to fight, even at the cost of dying, that miles had found in himself, luhon, and eff.
He had seen many of the important men of venone, and conversed with them mentally from the safety of his ship, where the specially installed gravity apparatus had protected him and the ship against the enormous gravity of this gigantic world.
A chill that had nothing to do with the temperature in her shell held her in thrall. That sounded a little odd, until you realized that much of the inner harbor defense was fixed land-based torpedo batteries.