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Show carefully taken all four of them in each one, tramped about for a few moments, and left. The JackPonies following would assuredly pick up the scent, she'd hoped, and their interest might cause the knight and his squire to waste time searching all the side chambers for their prey. If they be foolhardy enough to try the trail in the dark! The fair Janni set the handglow upon a ledge and the two women made their mounts comfortable in its light, resigned themselves to be lulled to sleep by the JackPonies' humming, and made a slap-dash toilet at a small spring in a corner of the chamber. It was bone-chilling cold. "Thinkest thou, my lady Mother.- that we have slowed them a slight bit?" asked Janni, pulling her cloak around her. They were making themselves as comfortable as possible against the quilted blankets covering the JackPonies, the handlgow still lit, but now lying betwixt them. Dr'Anya stretched her legs and flexed her fingers and toes. "Hope I with all my heart," she said. In faith, she was in terribly good spirits, in spite of the danger they faced. Her aches and pains could very near all be attributed to riding all day on a JackPony and her fingers were as flexible as a girl's. Best of all, her feet hurt her not a bit! And it seemed that all was well between Janni and herself, all as it had been before, or almost as well...close enough...all one could hope for; mayhap, under the present conditions. Dr'Anya sighed at that, and felt of a sudden not nearly so good as she thought. Janni, on her part, was resting on one hip. "How be the nether p a r t s , " she asked her daughter. Janni closed her eyes and groaned. "I will avenge me on that villain," she said through her teeth. "I will avenge m e . . . ." 181 |
