The Secret of the Swamp King
The Secret of the Swamp King
“It was a bustling village. Actually, it was more of a base camp than a village. Most of the feechies who lived there—even the wee-feechies—spent more time elsewhere than they did at Scoggin Mound. Still, it was a more permanent settlement than Aidan would have thought possible for feechiefolk. Huts with palm-thatched roofs dotted the little island, and a few feechies walked back and forth balancing clay pots full of water, berries, or fish caught from the surrounding swamp.The first people to n...otice Tombro and Aidan were a crowd of wee-feechies dressed in possum and muskrat hides and kicking a pine cone around a bare patch of sand a few strides from the landing.“Tombro! Tombro!” they shouted.“Did you bring me a turtle?”“Did you bring any sugarcane?”Then one of the wee-feechies noticed Aidan. “Oooik!” she shouted. “That’s a big’un!”“What happened to your hair, feller?” asked another wee-feechie. Aidan suddenly felt self-conscious of his bare neck. Even the wee-feechies wore their hair short in the front and long in the back.“Craney-crow snapped it off, I reckon,”MoreLess
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