title: To Drown In Sand (The 10th Lunen Regiment) (Volume 1)
author:  B C Laybolt 
description: B.C. Laybolt is an author careening towards middle age who has decided to publish his writing before he gets hit by a bus.<br /><br />In real life, he's an RN in the addictions field.<br /><br />He's been writing intermittently for about 20 years, and is hard at work chipping away at novels that his wife constantly pressures him to finish, in the hopes of purchasing a house in Malibu or Mahone Bay. Or even buy a cup of coffee with. He's been tinkering at it since 1995. She's beginning to have her doubts.<br /><br />He's an avid gamer of the tabletop, role-playing, and video varieties. He likes cats, and is pre-contemplative about dogs. A father of two children (who, in their own rights, he considers geniuses), and is married to a Princess.
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  # **PART FOUR**  
   **Death of a Regiment**  
  
  ## **28**
  
  Their return to Orlantha was less comfortable than the trip out, for it was a
  troopship they rode, the aged but well-maintained IWS _Davin._ She carried the
  Ice Tiger Regiment, a virgin regiment newly contracted for. Varlik had a
  shelf-like bunk in a troop compartment, while Konni enjoyed the privacy of a
  four- by eight-foot gear locker temporarily converted to her use.
  
  The _Davin_ was hotter than the hospital ship had been, too. The temperature
  was around 110°F during the wake period, Varlik guessed, though cooled during
  the sleep period by a dozen or fifteen degrees.
  
  According to a lieutenant he'd talked with, the new regiment had been
  contracted for by the Department of Armed Forces, not the Crown, and requested
  by General Lamons. Varlik accepted this as truth; the T'swa were given to
  openly briefing officers and men of all ranks, and r