In the two years that followed the Grand Revolution—as one chronicler so admiringly named it—the Victory increased its bulk by a good ten percent. The People worked around the clock and a decade of scheduled work was compressed into those two years.
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The sole refugee from the Yards, the girl, had started out not having the slightest idea of where she would go. Transportation was provided as far as the Yuma border, but beyond that no help was offered. She struck out to the north, desiring only to escape the Caroline where black and silver uniforms had acquired an unhealthy reputation.
In the third Spring after the Grand Revolution, she landed at Duncarin, capital of the Dresau Islands.