[Vote for the Fire Here!]
[~back to search page~][~back to Home page~][~back to search page~][~back to Home page~]The man whom Rim had identified as Arn, an Outlaw, now came forward,
passing before the two frames, closer down to the beach's edge. He made
the universal gesture for trading, gesturing as though he were taking
something from us, and then giving us
something in return.
One
of the girls in the frame lifted her head, and, miserable, surveyed our
ship, off shore, on the green waters of Thassa.
Cara looked at the
girls tied helpless in the frames, and at the man coming down to the
shore, and at the others, high on the beach, behind him, behind the
frames.
"Men are beasts," she said. "I hate them!"
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