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of mutilated Ghennungs. We are not certain. But in general,
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when they die"тАФhe paused, watching Vru's reactionтАФ"their
Ghennungs are destroyed. That is why we win the battles.
Their greatest soldier is only as old as his body."
Vru suddenly felt sick; bitter, stinging fluids from his
stomach sputtered into his throat. The Godless intentionally
murdered themselves when their bodies died!
"Now I will tell you why you are not a godcarver, if the
ambitious apprentice has time to listen," Khancriterquee said.
He tapped the Delighting-In-Beauty around Vru's neck with
his claw. "Carving copies, so that the people will not forget
their gods, and stay sane, is nothing. It is time for you to
carve a new god, as I did when I carved Fearless-In-Justice,
as my grandfather did with Delighting-In-Beauty." He lay
back on the furs and closed his eyes. "It will be a monument,
to be unveiled at The Festival of Hrsh. You will use this new
green stone."
Vru watched in silence as the master slept. He could hear
his own heart beating.
None of Khancriterquee's journeymen had been allowed to
create a god, not even Turmca. Why let an apprentice? To
embarrass and spite the journeymenтАФto punish their eager
impatience for Khancriterquee's death? Or did the master
think Vru had that much talent?
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The Bereft worked in the new mines, carving the green
stone from the cliff face. Their fur had been shaved, because
of the heat. Many of them had bloody claws, torn by the
stone. Vru tried to look away. He had rarely seen so many
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Bereft. Their bodies were muscular, powerful ... and naked of
Ghennungs. It was horrible, yet there was something about
those empty expanses of skin that called to him, like a field of
untrodden snow.
The green stone glittered, embedded in the gray rock.
Khancriterquee had been yelling at the foreman all day. Why
use the idiot Bereft? They understood enough to be useful in
the older mines, with the older gray stone. But this wonderful
new green stone, in which so much detail would be possibleтАФ