“Ahoy!”
A head poked over the bulwarks. A spear point glittered.
No doubt they wouldn’t be surprised to find a cannibal. After all, desert islands are desert islands and have a reputation to keep up.
In any event, they took me aboard Pearl of Klanadun and instead of killing me out of hand fed me two square meals and a gallon of Kregan tea. If I treat this whole episode matter-of-factly, that is the way I tried to treat it while it was happening. But it was a fraught old time, I can tell you.
Drifting over the sea, nothing in sight save sea and sky, slowly starving and thirsting to death — no. No, I do not believe I enjoyed that.
Because I did not usually wear a Krozair longsword when not engaged in something strenuous, I was not carrying one with me now. I’d been talking to Korero, di
