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boy to walk on out across the bay to the narrow channel that opened out onto the face of Mother Sea.

тАШAre you still sleeping, Red-Beard?тАЩ Longbow asked.

тАШNot any more,тАЩ Red-Beard told his friend sourly. He sat up and looked around his room in the House of
Veltan. It was a nice enough room, Red-Beard conceded, but stone walls were not nearly as nice as the
lodges of Lattash had been. тАШI was dreaming about the old days back in the village of Lattash, and IтАЩd
just caught enough fish to feed the whole tribe. Everybody seemed to be very happy about that. Then I
went on down to the beach to watch the sunset, and I was about to stroll on across the bay to say hello to
Mother Sea, but then you had to come along and wake me up.тАЩ

тАШDid you want to go back to sleep?тАЩ Longbow asked him.

тАШI guess not,тАЩ Red-Beard replied. тАШIf I happened to doze off now, the fish would probably start biting my
toes instead of the bait IтАЩd been using. Have you ever noticed that, Longbow? If youтАЩre having a nice
dream and you wake up before itтАЩs finished, your next dream will be just awful. Is there something
going on that I should know about?тАЩ

тАШThereтАЩs a little family squabble in VeltanтАЩs map-room is about all. Aracia and Dahlaine have been
screaming at each other for about an hour now.тАЩ


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тАШMaybe I will go back to sleep then,тАЩ Red-Beard said. тАШYou donтАЩt need to tell anybody I said this, but the
older gods seem to be slipping more and more every day.тАЩ

тАШYouтАЩve noticed,тАЩ Longbow said dryly.

тАШDo you have to do that all the time?тАЩ Red-Beard demanded, throwing off his blanket and struggling to
his feet.

тАШDo what?тАЩ

тАШTry to turn everything into a joke.тАЩ

тАШSorry. I didnтАЩt mean to poach in your territory. Shall we go?тАЩ

тАШItтАЩs fairly certain that the creatures of the Wasteland will come east now, Dahlaine,тАЩ Aracia was saying
as Red-Beard and Longbow entered VeltanтАЩs map-room. тАШAfter YaltarтАЩs volcano destroyed the ones in
ZelanaтАЩs Domain, they turned south to attack the nearest part of the Land of Dhrall, and east is closer to
south than north. TheyтАЩll attack me next. That should be obvious.тАЩ

тАШYouтАЩre overlooking something, Aracia,тАЩ Dahlaine disagreed. тАШThe servants of the Vlagh are cramming
thousands - or even millions - of years of development into very short periods of time. If we assume that
theyтАЩre still thinking at the most primitive level, I think weтАЩll start getting some very nasty surprises. IтАЩm
almost positive that their тАЬovermindтАЭ has come to realize that the attack here in the south turned into a
disaster, and that would make тАЬcloserтАЭ very unattractive. IтАЩm quite certain that their next attack will be