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Show PA - this evil have to befall you? Perhans I could bear such an injury better, because to be a warrior does not hold the same meaning for me that it does for you. You have always been the aggressive one, loving the snorting contest and the competitive life, while I am more content to think and observe. Can you accept what may lie in store for you now, my brother? I pray to the gods that you may.'1 Through the long night his powerful shoulders and back continued to bend forward and back. All that was heard wras the dip of the paddle and the Ian of the water against the canoe as it streaked northward through the Sea of Kiwa. His mind journeyed in thought, and before he realized It the world of dawn was once again pushing back the edges of night. He must seek shelter and a place to hide during the day. He spotted a small inlet and rowed toward it. There was •'ust enough room to null the canoe upon a rocky piece of land. Then he looked at his brother's wound. Muscle, veins, tendons and bone were openly exposed. The flaxen cord placed tightly around the thigh had stopped the bleeding, therefore, there x«ras nothing more he could do to treat It. Ruruku |