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“Correct They retreated further into the forest rather than be pacified I must confess that I learned more about the here I have seriously doubted they even exist With this tribe you end The other Indians avoid the forest beyond the Great Falls They say people who go into Chulo territory never come out Their fear, as you saw today, is real Those are the scant facts”

“And the legend?” Gamay said

“They can make themselves invisible,” Rah solid obstacles They are hosts or spirits than men They can’t be killed by ordinary weapons”

“The bullet holeputs that myth to rest,” Paul said

“It would seereed “There is another story, evenThe tribe is apparently oddess, in fact”

“An Aested

In answer, Ramirez pulled an object fro around the dead oddess It is said she protects her tribe and that her vengeance is terrible”

“She who must be obeyed,” Gamay said dramatically

“Pardon?”

Gamay smiled “It’s a quote frooddess who lived for thousands of years without aging”

Paul took the pendant and studied it “Goddess or not, she didn’t do a very good job of guarding the native ”

The older man’s face darkened “Yes, but at the same time”

“Is there so?” Gamay said

“I’e s of trouble in the forest”

“What kind of trouble?” Paul asked