QUERCUS ALBA 



Summer; then, had an observer 

 been where no observer was, the 

 first movement of the army of in- 

 vasion, heretofore passive, could 

 have been seen the all but si- 

 multaneous upward shooting of a 

 multitude of tiny aliens. Among 

 that army which had come many 

 never appeared to answer the call 

 of the roll at this the beginning of 

 the battle. The decaying vegeta- 

 tion upon the forest floor was too 

 deep. Though in the course of 



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