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Now the only reason they donТt stab their liberators in the back is
that the

alternative is worse. Now they are alive enough to starve and be
abused.

Shadowspinner is not famous for kindness and kissing babies.

The kids all over? Those almost happy and fat urchins? Nyueng
Bao. All Nyueng

Bao.

The Jaicuri nearly stopped making babies after the
Shadowmasters came. Most of

the few that were born failed to survive the hard times since. The
handful still

breathing are protected more fiercely than any treasure. You wonТt
find them

running naked through the streets, squealing and totally ignoring
strangers.

Who are the Nyueng Bao? You never heard of them?

It is a good question. And a hard one to answer.

The Nyueng Bao donТt talk to outsiders except through their
Speaker but the word

is that they are religious pilgrims who were on the homeward leg of
a

once-in-a-generation hadj who got trapped by circumstance. The
Taglian soldiers

say they hail from vast river delta swamps west of Taglios. They
are a

primitive, minuscule minority abhorred by the majority Gunni,
Vehdna, and Shadar

religions.

The whole Nyueng Bao people makes the pilgrimage. And the
whole people got

caught right in the deep shit here in Dejagore.