Jack looked around at the circle of officers. After three days in the temple, they still looked worse for wear, with wary eyes and mouths compressed into tight lines.
"Well, Sergeant? What did you find?"
"Pandies, sir," O"Neill reported. "I took out a patrol like you said and scouted the area. It"s thick with pandies."
"How many? What type?"
O"Neill took out a small notebook. "There was so many I had to get it written down, sir. That fellow, Parker, he"s a scholar and he did the writing for me." He scanned the page. "We headed west first, sir and saw a troop of sowars in the open ground. They were laughing and carrying on, sir as if they hadn"t got a care in the world. Certainly, they were not looking as if they expected us to return and sort them out."
"Their time will come," Jack sa
