8. We DigSabienn once again could feel the movement of the barge on the water taking them back across the channel to Rotnadge-Minora. He heard the water birds call and the lap of the channel on the vessel’s sides. Leearla mercifully opened the back door to allow the fresh channel air and the late afternoon light in. She then let the two humans find their legs on the barge deck who in turn assisted the amputees to the vessel’s surface.
Looking up and down the deck at the vehicles, Sabienn believed they were safe from Skayde’s company. He and Shyne took the liberty of following some of the other male passengers to the rear of the barge to take a leak over the side.
“Look,” called Shyne, indicating a figure on the bank that they were moving away from. Sabienn saw it too. A female figure in
