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Eventually, they made landfall on the coast of a very unfamiliar land covered with enore land was devoid of hue of crudely built huts, and a tall, bleak-faced bow told Captain Hook-Beak about an opportunity that seeood to be true

Rabbit observed that the Land of Dhrall was a peculiar sort of place with peculiar people and peculiar anie of Lattash, he added the rulers of that land to his list of peculiarities Lady Zelana was beautiful, there was no question about that, but she had Sorgan Hook-Beak bent over backward in alan’s awed report of the aold she had piled up in her cave If she was that rich, as she living in a hole in the ground?

Rabbit decided to avoid her, just to be on the safe side, but he did enjoy the coirl, Eleria

When the Seagull returned to the first village she’d visited, the tall, gribow joined thea quite well, though, and Rabbit offered to replace Longbow’s stone arrowheads with ether during the long voyage back to the Land of Dhrall, they becabow ed his new friend to assert himself a bitgold bricks to recruit other Maag ship captains to assist hi war in Zelana’s part of the Land of Dhrall, but Rabbit fully agreed with his friend Longbow that sohtly different plans

The situation almost compelled Rabbit to drop his clever pose as a little dibow’s ridiculous plan to counter the scheme of an unscrupulous ship captain ent by the naboas the only friend that Rabbit had ever had since the death of Uncle Beer-Belly, so Rabbit wasn’t about to let his about the Kajak affair as Sorgan’s fleet set sail from the harbor at Kweta His sudden celebrity as "the little felloho helped Longbow that night" had given his ego quite a boost, there was no question about that, but celebrity was the last thing Rabbit really wanted Inconspicuousness had been his goal since the day he first joined the crew of the Seagull The standard Maag conviction that "bigger is better" had made the pose fairly easy, and his an and the others that a few easy tasks were about all he was good for It had , and that was all that really mattered

The only significant task that had ever been laid on his shoulders had involved the Seagull’s smithy, and that had worked out rather well If he happened to be standing at his anvil tapping on a piece of iron with his hammer, Ox and Ham-Hand would find other sailors to attend to the more tedious chores

He was required to stand watch, of course No sailor can escape that task, and Rabbit ht watch, when the captain was asleep When things were going well, Rabbit could go for weeks on end without once seeing Sorgan

That didn’t particularly bother hiull’s speed and location on the location of a specific cluster of stars in the night sky relative to the eastern horizon, and in the past he’d found that if the Seagull wasat her norher in the sky than they had been the previous night It all fit together quite well, and Rabbit had been certain that his nuull and swept her off to the Land of Dhrall however, Rabbit had almost discarded his entire set of cos to suit her purposes, he dropped the ter was really ian’s fleet left the harbor at Kweta at first light on a blustery winter , and once they were at sea, the wind seeain, but now it caull viewed the change of the wind as a stroke of good luck Rabbit, however, was fairly certain that luck had very little to do with it

Despite the fact that it inter now, Sorgan’s fleet ood time, and they rounded the northern end of the Isle of Thurn after little ht have been able to keep better track of their progress, but the clouds hid the stars from him

He didn’t think that was very nice at all

"Does she really need to blot the stars out like that?" he co as the fleet made its way down the forested west coast of Dhrall

"Go ask her," Longbow suggested

"Ah--no, I don’t think I’ll do that I wouldn’t really want to irritate her"

"Good thinking," Longbow said without so much as a smile

It was about midday on a chill day when the fleet turned into the narrow inlet that opened out into the bay of Lattash, where the fleet of Sorgan’s cousin Skell lay at anchor The sky was cloudy, so there were no shadows, and it seee huddled in the chill air with the snowyoe had more than doubled in size since he’d last been there, but most of the additions appeared to be tee, for theatop the bere fro in the chill air, and what few natives were out in the open wore thickly furred capes, and they stepped right along Rabbit knew that winter was an unpleasant time almost anywhere, but it seemed even worse here in the Land of Dhrall

A narrow canoe cae Red-Beard was in the rear of the canoe, and Sorgan’s cousin Skell, a lean, sour-faced man in a heavy fur cloak, was seated in the bow Rabbit laid his hammer down on the anvil to watch and listen

"You an," Skell called when the canoe caed "Lucky,here?"