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He would undoubtedly have been more sympathetic had he not been hurt several times already by giving in to similar emotions. He was far too angry now to think of anything but his own survival. Akar no longer tried to comfort his friend, who only kept pushing him away. Regaining her composure, she glared bitterly at both of them. 'Why do you have to BE like this?
'We skin the carcass here, he proclaimed, breathing heavily. 'What the Mantis does not know, cannot trouble his sleep. Lifting the carcass one last time he brought it inside, into the relative safety of the larger cave. Akar and the girl followed him in, too tired themselves to protest. Akar lay down immediately in the coolest place he could find.
So he rose and faced his foe, who was through with running, and tried to aim a blow at his head; but his hands would not stop shaking. So he made one last swoop and ran in the direction it carried him, and for all his shame at leaving Akar his one thought was to break free of the circle and run, so hard and so far.....
So when he had eaten he lay down on the bed, and asked Sylviana to sit beside him. She did, and to pass the time he asked her a question suggested to him by the altar, the dulled mirror, and the memory of his first days in that place. 'How did you come to befriend Akar? I've often wondered. 'You're not asking just to make me feel better? 'No, truly.
That evening we reached a Kenyah village at Long Lawan, and as usual we were hospitably entertained with the fatted pig and brimming cups of rice-spirit. The weather was now brilliantly fine and the river of only normal swiftness, and we passed the night in a Kenyah house in the Akar. Here we spent two days awaiting the arrival of a party of Kayans from the upper Akar.
At length he took her hand, kissed it, and asked her. 'If Akar is not successful today. . .or even if he is. Could you go to the second reserve again? 'Yes. But why, if Akar brings us meat? 'He hunts for you, myself until I am better, and the cub. That is burden enough. Please believe it is best.
Akar might have been a stone in between, but for the narrowing fire of his eyes. Kalus moved slowly to the door and opened it. It was cold and black outside, but the wind had subsided. He began to move carefully towards the tiger. It growled at him and curled its upper lip, but the great head would not be supported. It lowered to the earth as before. 'It's all right, said Kalus reassuringly.
It yields the same dye as the former sort; they are prepared also in the same manner, and used indiscriminately, no preference being given to the one above the other, as the natives informed me, excepting inasmuch as the tarum akar, by reason of the largeness of the foliage, yields a greater proportion of sediment.
He had chosen her to be his mate, and she him. 'But the pack must be ruled by a single master, and that master, Akar's brother, had also chosen her. There are many things a leader must consider, and emotion is not the first concern of wolves. Shaezar claimed her, and she yielded to his will. 'Akar could not, would not cross his brother, but he was deeply hurt.
How is it that the brother of Shaezar has come to lead such a perilous existence? Akar- ... Shaezar is dead, killed by a rival while I was away. I could not serve in a pack whose unwanted leader had slain my true brother, so I set out to live on my own. The days have indeed been perilous, but I have vowed never to return. Skither- This is evil news you bring me.
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