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“None of that, girly,” he gurgled in that gargling-with-stones voice of his, that grated harshly on her ears “You’re et your belly filled with his heir”

Though The E inside her, Makenna felt a rush of revulsion at the idea of being with the big, dirty Trollox She would rather die of Ripening Fever than let him breed her!

Twisting in his grip, she brought her knee up sharply, right into his crotch

Biter let out a low bellow and let go of her to grab his wounded man-bits He sank to his knees between her and the field, his sy eyes filled with fury

“Oh, girly,” he gasped, glaring at her “You’re going to pay for that! Oh, how Biter will make you pay…”

Makenna didn’t stay to listen to any et away and since the enor the way back to the field, she turned and looked at the jungle

The Deep Blue shi to suck up all available light and sithout leaving a trace Makenna didn’t want to go into those shadowy depths, but she didn’t have much choice

With a final look over her shoulder at the angry Trollox, she plunged into the jungle

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“This is where we lost her scent,” Brun, as the pilot’s brother, was being very helpful, Bard thought He had an older er brother lacked “It’s the darass bushes,” he added “They’re so potent they confuse everyone’s nose”

“Not everyone’s,” Bard growled “Co Ya’greer loped confidently beside hiround before going on

I’ood as his own nose was, it was noanimals were native to the Deep Blue Bard hoped to the Goddess that Makenna hadn’t gone in there, but if she had, Tiny was uniquely suited to find her

Tiny led therass bushes and stopped for a round

“What’s that you found, boy?” Bard asked hi down, he saw several crushed blossoround into the dirt That wasn’t the only thing he saw, though

“So down at the deep tracks in the dirt around the bushes “And it looks like they either came from the Deep Blue or ran into it” He pointed at the clear trail between the bushes and the wild jungle beyond