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From: | Bab Beatty |
Subject: | [C2m-project] rage genesis |
Date: | Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:50:47 -0200 |
Foundling, I knew, she must have been, the vague
manand woman her father and mother. No, no, Lief, he broke in, dropping the tribal
tongue.
I straightened up and looked out over the white
river.
Around and over them the goldenpygmies danced to
the throbbing of the little drums.
Clearly, he knew something of this
place.
If we could only get her to speak slower, andtune
down on the trills.
Around her hips wasthe white loin-cloth of the
Little People. It was inflamed, but the blackness was no longerthere. They were
earth-folk,worshippers of life; and as such at times outrageously Rabelaisian. The
water was warm, as warm as the milk it resembled, and curiouslybuoyant. What would
he want you to do when youdid find it?
We went forward, avoiding with difficultythe
thorns. The little woman came racing through the fem brake; the little man
stoppeddancing. The Ayjir werecunning; they laid traps for the little ones, and
caught a number.
Her hands were filled with small purplish fruits
resemblingfox-grapes. It had been hours since we had followed her over the plain
between thewatch-tower and her tent.
She was a strong woman, tall almost as
I.
Butthe hair was russet red and her skin as fair as
that of the woman whoheld her.
I could not understand, andshook my head
helplessly.
Once he called me dog slinking behind the heels of
the hunter.
Over that silvery pelt her hair fell in twothick
braids of flaming red.
At the endof the path was a squat tower of stone,
and from this came the glint ofspear-heads. And just as certainly, I assumed,they
knew what they were about.
I peered through one of thecrevices, down upon the
blue sward and the white river. How could I be sure until I saw all the signs? They
were in Cherokee-land when the Cherokeesgot there.
In the tower a shrill-voiced drum chattered an
unmistakable alarm. When I summon you, then see that you obey! Besides, men are few
in Karak, as I told you. She remembered when she hadbeen no bigger than the Little
People . I went on to something else that had been puzzlingme.
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