CHAPTER 28
In a surprisingly short time, they were done inside the kazr.
Najud had washed his hands superficially in the snow, and then dug through his packs until he turned out a pouch filled with double-ended hooks.
He rigged cords across the rafters in the two back quarters of their kazr, near to the walls where they would be most out of the way, and showed Penrys how to pierce a meat strip with one end of the hook, and then drop the other end of the hook over the rope. The air was dry enough with the heat from the stove that the strips were already past the dripping stage.
“Try not to let them touch anything else, even each other,” he said.
“How long does it take?” she asked. “And what happens when you move?”
“The whole autumn slaughter’s done this way, back in the zudiqazd. Take
