It is still very early when Colonel Le Clerq enters his tiny office in the fort of Dini Salam. This morning, he is out of sorts and nearly irrational because he has had a bad night. After D’Arlan told him that Vermeer’s patrol had been annihilated and Teuns Stegmann had been taken away by the Dulacs, the colonel had been struggling with this problem. In some way, he has to rid themselves once and for all from this El Karima of the Dulacs. But how to go about it? It is a nearly impossible task. Every time she had managed to deal the Legion a blow, she had called her army back to Dutra, and it was almost impossible to reach Dutra from the direction of the desert. First, you must enter a narrow portal inside the Atlas Mountains, with enormously high cliffs on both sides, so much so that you c
