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Book 18 BLOOD BROTHERS OF GOR
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----- by John Norman -----



Volume eighteen of the Chronicles of Counter-Earth


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Chapter One

THE PTE


"There it is," said Grunt, pointing ahead and to our right. "Do you see
it?"
"Yes," I said. "Too, I feel it." I could feel the tremor in the earth, even
through the paws and legs of the lofty, silken kaiila.
"I have seen it only once before," he said.
I rose in the stirrups. The vibration, clearly, was registered in the
narrow, flat-based rings. Earlier, dimounted, we had placed the palms of our
hands to the earth. It was then that we had first felt it, earlier this
morning, from as faraway as perhaps twenty pasangs.
"They are coming," had said Cuwignaka, happily.
"I am puzzled," said Grunt. "It is early, is it not?"
I sat back on the saddle.
"Yes," said Cuwingaka, astride his kaiila, to my left.
The current moon was Takiyuhawi, the moon in whcih the tabuk rut. It is
sometimes known also as Canpasapawi, or the moon when the chokechrries are
ripe.
"I do not understand," said Grunt. "It is not due until Kantasawi." This
was the moon in which the plums become red. It is generally the hottest time
of the year in the Barrens. It occurs in the latter portion of the summer.
"Why is it early?" asked Grunt.
"I do not know," said Cuwignaka.
Our kaiila shifted beneath us, on the grassy rise. The grass here came to
the knees of the kaiila. It would have come to the thighs of a girl.
"Perhaps there is some mistake," I suggested. "Perhaps it is not what you
think."
"There is no mistaking it," said Grunt.
"No," said Cuwignaka, happily.
"could it not be another?" I asked.
"No," said Cuwignaka.
"These things are like the summer and the winter," said Grunt, "like the
phases of the moons, like day and night,"
"Why then is it early?" I asked.