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I HAD NOT imagined that we would return to Barresh in the company of two warring tribes, yet that seemed exactly what was happening. The Thousand Islands Pengali insisted on coming with us to make their displeasure of the situation clear. And if I’d doubted Langga’s assessment that Thousand Islands Pengali would have occupied the beach with a lot more people, a whole bunch of other Pengali came out of the forest. I’d heard people say that you could visit a place and think you were alone, but all the while hundreds of Pengali could be watching you.
Abri ordered a couple of them to lower our solar charger from the tree, while most of them congregated around Langga, Maray and Della on the beach. I kept an eye out for hostilities, holding my arms crossed so I could grab my gun from its br
