Deight

It would have been a relief to burst out with the news that Deight was a traitor -but might there not be other traitors here whom it would be wiser not to warn?

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He was too late, and Deight had the heat gun with which he might have burned his way to freedom.

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When the priest did not reply, Deight answered himself.

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"I didn't want them pulling Deight to bits for being an Outsider before I got at him," Marapper said.

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"This time my dazer's at Lethal, Deight," Complain said.

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Perhaps these moths are sort of airborne scouts for the rat-hordesl This notion scared him a great deal more than hearing Deight pronounce his death sentence had done.

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He stood up and dragged Deight roughly to his feet.

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For a moment, Deight was silent, as the man at the other end of the line spoke.

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Zac Deight continued to walk forward without replying, his face bleak and absorbed.

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Meanwhile, he wanted to give the heat gun, the welder, as Deight had called it, over to somebody who could make best use of it: Master Scoyt.

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