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The aborigines believed that everything was meant to be, that if an aniift offered willingly While Dev had great respect for his clansmen, a part of him wondered if it was a story made up by a parent to make a child feel better about his dinner The reality was that the hapless victi bloody time

Love? You out there?

He didn’t knohy he did it, but so about the waraze

Her response was surprisingly clear for theto send his stockured out the third e

Don’t fret, love He likely already planned to send his hands out after ht?

Taking up the lifeless body and his knife, he rose, prepared to ain

You’re right I should have thought of that He’s trying to see how upset he can make me about you It bothers him

Well, it’s not like you had ht so you could thu they could do for you, your rel could do better

Don’t call yourself that

He winced at the sharpness of her tone Jesus, love You didn’t tell h like a fishwife Don’t do that without warning You et me shot

Where are you? What’s happening now?

I’ a lower position, he cut the rabbit’s sto the the still-warh the trees, he disseans, blood and bone, sinew, on a circular path Finally, he laid the creature to rest beneath a bush, to feed the other animals ould coround

He’s ree to it, for myself, but in your world you probably should think of ainst you, no matter what happens

She went silent again He didn’t know if he’d offended her or not, but he had other matters to address now The sound of the men was closer, so he found another tree, took one of his spears and worked his way up into the branches He noted clouds wereso at times darkness was total, then the shapes of the landscape would briefly illuminate, as the moon made an appearance

Dev, is there nothing you want for yourself? Even pride?

Pride is a vengeful thing, love Will stab you in the back every ti you ot a bet to win They’re co

Plus, a man who’d closed down his soul was like a closed pub There wasn’t anything to want froot a sense she’d received that thought, but didn’t have tiret it

TheHe counted himself fortunate that his first evidence of thee tree, he detected five of the through the trees and rocks like noiseless shadows Moving as fast as snakes on the hunt