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Sorgan let the others go on ahead and motioned to Skell ‘I think maybe you’d better stay here, cousin,’ he said ‘I don’t think it’d be a good idea for our people to start wandering around on the beach or running around in any nearby villages We don’t want the sa around here that you caainst when you first reached Lattash, do we?’

‘Not even a little bit,’ Skell agreed ‘I’ll pass the word to the other Maag ship-captains that you want everybody to stay on board their ships for right now We don’t really know just exactly where we’ll be fighting this war anyway, so there’s a fair chance that we’ll have to sail off to soion, and it’d take quite a while to drag the sailors back to their ships if ere to just turn thereed

Skell rowed his skiff back on out to the Shark, and then he sent Grock and Baldar out to advise the other Maag ship-captains that Sorgan had decided that the sailors should all remain on board their ships Then he went on over to the Lark to advise his brother that they’d probably bejust a bit more clever,’ Torl noted as the two of theentle sky of evening ‘Wehalf the ship-captains in the fleet this time’

‘I didn’t make too ed those idiots, the bowe would have killed everybody in the fleet’

‘Who’s that co at a black-leather-clad Trog who see down the trail that led to the shore

Skell peered through the fading light ‘I think that’s Padan,’ he said

‘Why’s he dragging that other one behind his broke soht about that, Skell The Trogs have rules for just about everything - how many times your heart’s supposed to beat, how often you’re allowed to blink, when you’re supposed to breathe - all those terribly ie decides for every soldier in the whole silly ars, aren’t they?’ Skell agreed ‘It’s probably nothing very important, but maybe we should row on over there and ask Padan what happened’

Padan was just coside of the wide-bea afoot that we ought to know about?’

‘We just had a stroke of good luck is about all, Skell,’ Padan replied with a broad grin

‘We struck gold, et to know that arrogant ex-priest Jalkan at all during that war up in the ravine to the east of Lattash?’

‘Well enough not to want to have anything more to do with him,’ Torl replied