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Updated: May 17, 2025
Karara moved a little to his right, Taua between them, the dolphin's super senses their guide and warning. The swiftest of the cruisers had departed, Loketh on board to communicate with Tino-rau in the water. Since the male dolphin was the best equipped to provide a fox for salkar hounds, he was the bait for this weird fishing expedition. "No farther!"
Ross dared not flash his torch, thus betraying his presence. Leaving the net hitched to the rock by its sling, he swam under water along the side of the cave by a route which should bring him out within striking distance of that hunched figure perching above to watch Karara's every move. Loketh the Useless
Now they've turned him over to the Foanna " "What will they do with him?" the girl demanded of Loketh. His answer came roundabout as usual as the native squatted by the analyzer and clicked his answer into it. "They have claimed the wreck survivors for tribute. Your companion will be witches' meat." "Witches' meat?" repeated Ross, uncomprehending.
Your magic has a bite in it." Ross smiled. "Not my magic, Captain. This weapon was taken from one of their own ships. As to how long they will remain so that I do not know." "Very well, we can take precautions." Under Torgul's orders the aliens were draped with capture nets like those Ross and Loketh had worn.
Could driblets of the same stellar knowledge have been here deliberately fed to warring communities? He asked Loketh about the possibility of space-borne explorers. But to the Hawaikan that was a totally foreign conception.
"These slaves that the Wreckers take upon occasion ... Maybe Ashe...." Ross was catching at very fragile straws; he had to. And the stranger had said that able-bodied men who swam ashore relatively uninjured were taken captive. Several had been the night before. "Loketh." Ross and Karara looked around.
There was much care to set them in place, that was done by a man of Glicmas." "A man of Glicmas?" "Glicmas is now the high lord of the Iccio. He is blood kin to Zahur, yet Zahur must take sword oath to send to Glicmas a fourth of all his sea-gleanings for a year in payment for this magic." "And Glicmas, where did he get it? From the Foanna?" Loketh made an emphatic denial of that.
"To give bread into the hands of one you have taken in battle, makes him your man not as a slave to labor, but as one who draws sword at your bidding. When I took your bread I accepted you as cup-lord. Between such there is no betrayal, for how may a man betray his lord? I, Loketh, am now a sword in your hands, a man in your service.
Karara's eyes were half closed, her head back; she was manifestly aiming that inquiry at the dolphins, to be translated to Loketh. Symbols burned on the analyzer screen. "The Foanna have their own fortress. It can be entered best by sea. There is a boat ... I can show you, for it is my own secret." "Tell him yes, as soon as we can!" Ross broke out.
A party of them were heading for the end of the hall, making a wide detour around the Foanna. Loketh gave a small choked cry; his fingers tightened on Ross's forearm with painful intensity as he whispered. What was about to happen meant something important. To Loketh or to him? Ashe! Was this concerned with Ashe?
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