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When he looked up, the girls had gone

He guessed they had paid the ultimate price for disobedience and been battered to death Then an incendiary charge lit the scene and he saw the up the side of the warship Water dripped froers between their teeth

Three one after thehed hiress and reached the first of the oar ports, panting for breath Barrels of burning sulphur cast a ghostly blue light over the scene inside

Tribes about in the acrid fuirls were in the thick of the action It was a perfect place to prove himself as a warrior but the oar ports were far too s and reached thethe tribes cut down around him It was only a matter of tiuard rail and unsheathed his sword

Suddenly, the fighting ceased

'Look who's here'

Mocking voices greeted hion was there and that was all that iven him a final chance to prove hi e you to single coion as he left his bodyguard and went across to where he was standing To his annoyance, Morgon ht ed you before and you refused'

'That because you not my equal'

'I'm your equal nowI'on er coion' He dropped his voice 'Natives want cut you up They want cut on'

'Toht, I no kill you I just wound you and let natives do rest'

Morgon took an incendiary grenade from his belt

'We can make alliance but we not have et usor this thing go bang'