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"I’ve got so the towns to the north of Weros fora few days later during the custo after supper in his for and that the pay’s good, and that’s ht We’ll probably have our fleet put together before too er"

"I certainly hope so," Zelana replied

"I’ll be sending the advance fleet to Dhrall in just a little bit," Sorgan assured her "I’ve been holding off until my cousin Skell joins us He’s more reliable than so to find Lattash, Cap’n?" Ox asked "That coast stretches on for a long way, as I recall"

"I could go with thean shook his head "I need you here, Longbow," he said "You’re the only h knotholes fros that I use to persuade others to join us"

"I could go with the here but growing longer whiskers, and I don’t ih it is--has persuaded an," Zelana said, "and if your cousin follows Red-Beard’s advice and spreads his fleet out, they’ll encounter other Maag ships out on the face of Mother Sea Then they can say the old’ to the captains of those other ships, and we could very well have twice asthe coast of Dhrall than we sent fro"

"That’s the e’ll do it, then You’re paying, so we’ll dance to your tune--but not until Skell joins us He’s a lot more responsible than some of the other ship captains, so he’ll be able to prevent any enthusiasts fro to meet the army of the Wasteland That would irritate your people, and I could lose half of et there if the other Dhralls are even half as good with their bows as Longbow here is"

It was foggy the next ull, listening to the voices co from nearby ships Sounds, he noted, always see Perhaps there was soreement between the eyes and the ears involved

Red-Beard cabow "Murky," he observed quietly

"I noticed that ood day for hunting"

"The fishing h" Red-Beard looked around and leaned closer "Zelana wants to have a ith you," he said very quietly "So her"

"I’ll go right away," Longbow replied in a similarly quiet voice Then he spoke a bit louder "Do you suppose you can watch the fog without any help, Red-Beard?" he asked "I should probably go find out if Zelana has anything she wants e here by myself," Red-Beard replied "I’ll have soets to be bow lad you liked it," Red-Beard said with a broad grin

Longboent aft toward the stern of the Seagull Red-Beard was frobow liked hibow’s preconceptions in ways that would probably have been ihtly on the door to the aft cabin

"Cobow," Zelana’s voice responded