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Show the yeofolk settlers in Bod's Rift, even though her own GarGantuas were well known for granting no quarter. She looked at the giantess from under her eyebrows and kept her peace. "Thou wilt pay for your failure to sabotage the Governor, little pig," said the woman to Hoqqam, shaking her finger at him. For Chu had called up a segment of the administration program and saw immediately something was terribly wrong with the system-something that sabotage would do naught but make worse. "Abide thou," the warrior continued, "for when we reach the High Tartars I give thee over to the Seljuk!" Hoqqam blenched and so did Chu, who hadn't counted on going into those terror-filled heights. "I will not g . . . . " she began. The huge woman whirled on her. "Thou wilt do what I tell thee, little one!" She smiled widely, showing an abundance of huge white teeth and two extraordinarily sharp canines. "'Twill be right merry." She pushed at Chu playfully who grabbed at Hoqqam to keep from tumbling off the bench. Hoqqam snarled and moved away from her. The big woman studied the two before her a moment, then she shook her head mournfully. "Nice folk ye be!" she said. Then she walked out of the chamber. By dawn, the Seljuk Lieutenant and her three hundred GarGantuas were high up in the Tartars, picking their way on JackPonies along the cliffs. Hoqqam was riding sullenly between a huge bronze valkyrie in front and a blockish mountain of female behind, hung with a crossbow and a quiver full of steel-tipped projectiles. His wrists were chained loosely together in front of him. Chu rode further back, tied firmly to a JackPony. Her head 245 |