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‘Is there trouble of some kind?’

‘Sort of The fire- up a new village out here It ht not be as pretty, but it’s safer’

I looked at the partially-coes near the beach ‘Those don’t look at all like the ones back in Lattash,’ I observed, ‘but they seebow told es up in the north of your Do brother,’ Zelana said with a faint s food is "women’s work", and that it’s beneath the, and Longbow’s chief, Old-Bear, told these two that sorassland where there aren’t any trees, and they build their lodges out of sod instead of tree branches The es out of tree li each other war stories But one windy night these two slipped around pulling down the new lodges When the sun ca the h for lodges out here, and that they were going to need soested sod, and thesod for all they’re worth The wo seeds Red-Beard’s tribe will have nice sturdy lodges and plenty to eat inter arrives, and nobody was offended’

‘Clever,’ I said ad happened to old Chief White-Braid?’ I asked

‘The destruction of Lattash was more than he could bear,’ Red-Beard explained sadly ‘He knew that the tribe was going to have to find a new place to live, but he didn’t feel up to doing it hirief- had disabled him to the point that he couldn’t make decisions any more He realized that, so he laid the chore on my shoulders I didn’t really want any part of it, but he didn’t give me any choice’

‘You’ll probably do quite well, Chief Red-Beard,’ I told him ‘I’ve noticed that men who don’t really want authority and responsibility make better leaders than o talk with our baby brother, Zelana There are things he needs to know, and I’m not sure how much time he has left’

Longbow ledon the sand There’s a quality about Zelana’s archer that I find more than a little awesome He’s a bleak-faced un when he’d been hardly h had been his only purpose in life He was a grim man with very few friends and an almost inhuht all want to keep this man around If all ell, we’d turn back the servants of the Vlagh wherever and whenever they attempted to invade our individual Doh would still be there Longbow le venom-tipped arroould send the creatures of the Wasteland down the road to extinction, and that, of course, was our ultibow pulled his canoe down to the water and held it in place while Zelana and I climbed into it, and then he pushed it clear and stepped into the stern all in one motion

‘I think our baby brother’s on board Narasan’s ship, Longbow,’ Zelana suggested

‘Probably so,’ Longbow agreed He paddled us out across the bay to the oversized Trogite ship of Co soldier called Keselo stood waiting for us at the rail ‘Is sobow sside the ship

‘Not really,’ Zelana replied ‘We just cao to work’

‘Has Eleria been drea man,’ I told him ‘It was my little boy, Ashad, this tis involved We’re hoping that Veltan ht be able to explain them for us’ I paused for a h, you can probably explain the?’