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‘This is Oo, Commander,’ Veltan said ‘I’ve known him since he was a little boy, and the other far their probleifted, Coht him an iron knife to show hiht around and invented the spear’
‘The spear’s been around for centuries, Keselo,’ a very thin Trogite scoffed
‘Not around here, it hasn’t, Jalkan The farmers around here don’t even knohat the word "war" o refers to his spear as a "tool" That suggests an entirely different sort of mind, wouldn’t you say?’
‘The other faro showed them his spear, Commander Narasan,’ Veltan said, ‘and they’d really like to have spears of their own’
‘What does a farite Jalkan deh of that, Jalkan,’ Coitimate question, Commander,’ Veltan said ‘I’d , and some accounts of the war in Zelana’s Domain drifted across the border between our two Do-", he starts to feel very belligerent A swarm of locusts can devour a whole year’s crop in less than a day After Oo had shown the other farmers his spear, they sort of volunteered to join us in the upco war’
‘If we showed them how to form a phalanx, they could be very useful, couldn’t they, Coht at that,’ Narasan agreed ‘They’d need shields, though’
‘What’s a shield?’ Oo asked the commander
‘It’s a metal plate we strap to our left arms We use it to protect our bodies fro, sir,’ Keselo advised
‘Good’ Narasan looked at Veltan ‘Where do you think we should set up our ca I wanted to talk over with you, Commander,’ Veltan replied ‘I don’t want to offend you, but it seean’s as well - on board your ships Your s--? Well, I’et s out the worst in the Maags’
‘We’ll beanyway,’ Veltan continued, ‘so setting up a temporary camp would just be a waste of ti food for your ar it here to the beach In the an and some of the others to my house to have a look at my map I filched Rabbit’s idea of a luet so brother’s Drea this war up there, so you’ll need to be fa cae to join them ‘The country around here looks a lot flatter than it was off to the West, Narasan,’ he said, ‘and there aren’t so an,’ Narasan replied ‘Fighting a war in the bushes irritates e here’
‘The chief, you an,’ Veltan said ‘Oestions sooes’