I forgive you everything, Aboli said softly. Aboli and jiri spent most of the hours of daylight at the masthead,peering at the land. Once he was seated hesummoned one of the haggard serving wenches to bring him a tankard ofsmall beer. Something struck him a light blow upon the wrist and a gleaming,sinuous body slid over the edge of the chest and dropped to the deck.
As he lay and listened to Althuda, he began to fall in lovewith her. The wind was strong enough to shake the tall reeds and cover any soundhe might make so he could move in swiftly over the last hundred paces. Halnodded, the Buzzard had acted instinctively but unwisely. Flames had reached the Gull's mizzen-yards and weretaking hold in the furled sails.
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