Subject: The Bullseye Equity Report

From: "Jarrett Rasmussen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:18:19 +0700

Katrina Corbett

The Eagle's light dropped, a flame swallowed by what fed it."Do you see anything?" Ganesha demanded of Quintus. Later on, though, later on, it took Draupadi's or Ganesha's knowledge to disperse them. Closer and closer they ranged, not fading even at noon. Even for these men, the strongest who had set out so many months ago, it was hard to rest at noon when no shadows should mark the trail, and see these shadows, as it seemed, in a midday camp of their own, just watching-or ranging out in the late afternoon when all shadows lengthened. Quintus had a private nightmare that, one day, they would curve around one of the larger dunes and find an army of faceless shadow-soldiers between them and their goal.And why me? My return home is lost.... He remembered those saddest of Achilles's words. Lost in any case, came a thought-his or his enemy's. He did not know: In either case, it was true."Or they could be souls in torment!" Draupadi flared. "At the Stone Tower, you know what you saw. You saw what the Dark Ones do. Terror and suffering are their servants, but they have human slaves as well.""He was only a common soldier," said the Ch'in officer. "But he served faithfully."