A Bone From a Dry Sea

Authors: Peter Dickinson

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“They waited for a while gazing down, trying to see what was happening below, longing to return to the safe, known shore, hoping perhaps that the males of the tribe would somehow realize their combined strength and unite to drive Greb away, as they’d done before. Li was still almost unable to think or move without terror, after Greb’s sudden appearance at the head of the gully. She was convinced he’d climbed the cliffs deliberately to search for her. She didn’t dare even show herself above the cliff edge, but hung back, gazing around, looking for a way of escape in case he came again. Above the cliff the ground, stony and bare, sloped gently up to a crest, beyond which she could now see the central mountain pouring out its billowing black tumult of smoke. The rain-fed stream runnelled down a shallow dip from the top. She knelt and drank and splashed some water over herself and then climbed beside it. Her main thought was still that if Greb came back she must have somewhere to hide.

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