Never diagnosed the enemy before.

Well tonight we’re passing an amendment. I call it Jander’s Law.

No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.

He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he’d peed himself, it didn’t matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.

I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

Your people sell the weapons. My people use them.