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| 17 | 140 | Such a commander is said to View more quotes about stand">stand "outside the rings". |
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| 17 | 137 | This may refer to a military march, of course, but, I suspect, the term being apparently ancient, that it may also refer to migrations in the remote history of the Kurii, on their own world, putatively no longer existent or viable. |
| 17 | 138 | There is some indirect evidence that this may be the case, because twelve "Marches" is referred to not as a Division or Army, or some such unit, but rather as a "People". |
| 17 | 139 | A People would be commanded by a "Blood" of the People. |
| 17 | 140 | Such a commander is said to stand "outside the rings". |
| 17 | 141 | I do not fully understand the meaning of this expression. |
| 17 | 142 | The Kurii, as I may have mentioned, consist of several "Peoples". |
| 17 | 143 | Not all of these "Peoples" speak the same language, and, I gather, there are differences among them, and within, each People, for example, differences in marking, in texture of fur, in temperament, in tooth arrangement, in ear shape, and so on. |