Prince of Outcasts
“Pip said, beaming and lying back in the recliner.
She was enjoying feeling clean and the fresh clothes and the smell of dinner; also having all the leaders of the strangers here where she could appraise them and get a feeling for what was going on. They had been appropriately, though not effusively, grateful when the battle ended in the usual inconclusive withdrawal by both sides to lick wounds. Now there was time to talk.
The night was dark with a thick frosting of stars and a quarter-...moon just risen, but the lamps on the poles above and the fire-pits and the bigger lanterns around the grounded Tarshish Queen a few hundred yards away gave plenty of light. Palms rustled overhead, and there was a heavy sweet scent from a nearby frangipani tree; she had some of the cream-and-gold blossoms tucked into her hair.
She lay back carefully, to avoid too much pressure on her bruises or the bandages covering a few cuts; fortunately the batik kain sarung and light lacy uden blouse she was wearing were very comfortable, as well as being extremely fetching in her opinion.MoreLess
She was enjoying feeling clean and the fresh clothes and the smell of dinner; also having all the leaders of the strangers here where she could appraise them and get a feeling for what was going on. They had been appropriately, though not effusively, grateful when the battle ended in the usual inconclusive withdrawal by both sides to lick wounds. Now there was time to talk.
The night was dark with a thick frosting of stars and a quarter-...moon just risen, but the lamps on the poles above and the fire-pits and the bigger lanterns around the grounded Tarshish Queen a few hundred yards away gave plenty of light. Palms rustled overhead, and there was a heavy sweet scent from a nearby frangipani tree; she had some of the cream-and-gold blossoms tucked into her hair.
She lay back carefully, to avoid too much pressure on her bruises or the bandages covering a few cuts; fortunately the batik kain sarung and light lacy uden blouse she was wearing were very comfortable, as well as being extremely fetching in her opinion.MoreLess
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