The Thunder King (Bell Mountain)
“But now when the wind was right, Wytt said he could smell the forest. It lay straight ahead of them. Another day or two would get them there.
“How empty the plain is!” Ellayne said as the day wore on. “It’s hard to believe people ever lived here.”
Wytt jumped up on Ham’s pack and whistled, chattered, and brandished his sharp stick.
“It’s not so empty now,” Jack said. “He smells men around us, half a dozen of them. And they’re close.”
So close, indeed, that they rose up out of the tall grass bef...ore Martis could even draw his sword. There were six of them, wiry little men with curly hair, barefoot, clad only in loincloths, with slings in their hands and stones in the slings. They’d smeared their skins with dirt and the juices of crushed plants: otherwise Wytt would have smelled them before they got so close. Two of them had fresh scalps dangling from their loincloths.
“Easy, easy!” Martis said to the children. “These are Attakotts. I don’t speak their language.”MoreLess
“How empty the plain is!” Ellayne said as the day wore on. “It’s hard to believe people ever lived here.”
Wytt jumped up on Ham’s pack and whistled, chattered, and brandished his sharp stick.
“It’s not so empty now,” Jack said. “He smells men around us, half a dozen of them. And they’re close.”
So close, indeed, that they rose up out of the tall grass bef...ore Martis could even draw his sword. There were six of them, wiry little men with curly hair, barefoot, clad only in loincloths, with slings in their hands and stones in the slings. They’d smeared their skins with dirt and the juices of crushed plants: otherwise Wytt would have smelled them before they got so close. Two of them had fresh scalps dangling from their loincloths.
“Easy, easy!” Martis said to the children. “These are Attakotts. I don’t speak their language.”MoreLess
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