Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
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