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Sorgan shrugged ‘I’m sure we’ll be able to keep busy in the meantime Veltan’s map is just a bit on the teenie-weenie side, so I’ll feel a bit ’

‘Teenie-weenie?’ Narasan sounded a bit aht have spent too an said, shaking his head

‘All right, then,’ Skell said ‘We don’t really have to wait for Gunda to get here Torl and I’ll go on ahead and scout things out Give us a couple of days and we’ll have a fair idea of where we should set up the forts Then the rest of thedown the bases for those forts By the tiets here, the bases will be in place and Gunda’s men can take it froan asked

‘It sounds good to reed

‘You’ll probably need about five ship-crehen you go on up there, wouldn’t you say?’ Sorgan asked Skell

‘Get serious, cousin,’ Skell growled ‘Torl’s crew andan invasion, you know I’ up there to have a look around, and the fewerbehind me, the faster I’ll be able to an, so just stay out of my way and let ht the following an woke up and started adding more and an always seeued about that quite often when they were younger ht that it would take about two days to reach the etting better acquainted with the archer called Longbow A nu down to the village of Lattash that had debo more about their enemies than anybody else, and that made him extremely valuable

It was late in the afternoon on their first day out when Skell joined Longbow at the bow of the Shark ‘I spentto block off that ravine,’ Skell said, ‘so I don’t really know all thatI’ve heard that you know ht be the one I should talk with Is there anything I should know?’

‘Theyou should know about the creatures of the Wasteland is that they have no sense of fear,’ Longbow replied

‘They’re brave, you mean?’

‘I wouldn’t think of it as "brave", Skell "Stupid" ht come closer, but that’s not quite correct either As individuals, they don’t have anything at all that we’d call intelligence They just do exactly what the Vlagh wants them to do - even if it’s impossible’

‘I’d say that "stupid" coed ‘Their minds don’t work the way ours do -probably because they don’t have separate minds What one of theroup awareness The center of that awareness is "That-Called-the-Vlagh" The Vlagh h will keep trying to carry out those decisions, even when it’s the only one left alive’

‘That gets right back to "stupid", doesn’t it?’

‘We ht look at it that way, but they don’t Of course, they don’t know that they can die As far as they know, they’ll live forever, and nothing can possibly kill thebow?’

‘I’ a hunter learns is to think the hatever he’s hunting thinks If he can’t, he doesn’t eat very often’ Longbow looked out over the choppy water ahead of the Shark’s bow ‘You spend most of your time out here on the face of Mother Sea, don’t you?’