"Colonel, sir, those flooded woods in the Sabine River valley are tougher than you might expect. We’re not just talking swamps here—we’re basically talking permanent disaster areas. There’s been a lot of severe flooding in the Sabine since the rain patterns changed, and a lot of the local farmland has gone back to wilderness. That’s not the forest primeval out there. Those are deserted, toxic locales of no economic value, where all the decent lumber is long gone and there are poisonous weeds and bushes half the size of trees. It would be a mistake to underestimate those Regulators when they’re on their native ground. Those Cajun nomads are not just native hunters and fishers and swamp dwellers; they’re also very big on sylvan audio surveillance."