Chapter eight
Concerning the mystery of the escaped prisonersThere followed a short campaign that, although viciously and bloodily fought, contained nothing of interest apart from a demonstration of the overlords’ methods of maintaining order in their own lands and of dealing with incursions over their borders.
The people who lived beyond the river were mainly nomads, although cities existed as well, built by settlers in favored positions. No one knew very much of this whole vast area of Northern Turismond, and we were much less than two hundred dwaburs into a space of land stretching, it was estimated by the Todalpheme, for six hundred dwaburs to the pole.
These nomads did not remind me of my own Clansmen.
Oh, they possessed vast herds of chunkrah, and they lived in magnificent tents,
