The men cluster, some on horseback, some on foot. Horses tramp, balk, some leap forward. The night presses in, treestalks upright as sentinels; they march into distance not shaking, not bending down, just still, like a breath drawn. Dogs, so many dogs. They run between the trees, between the legs of the horses, around the men who race behind them. They …
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