_Fen!_ Soap! _Mu'chita Loca! _ He threw it down. He offered one to Nandi, who smiled and shook his head. Her parents haveforbidden her to see him, but she likes the old man and the stories he tells, and he seems muchmore pathetic than frightening. Also,either the anchor had slipped and they had drifted, or the river and its banks had mutated whileshe slept; Renie did not know which prospect was worse.
Renieand !Xabbu and the others found themselves floating in the air, weightless at the top of thesudden rise; for a brief instant, their One of the pirates emerged from abolthole somewhere with a bundle in his arms, only its tiny red head protruding from the blanket. The men were as numerous as ants, and they beat him. He kept his eyes closed.
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