VIII

      "How many of you went?"

      "A score and a half, Bìxîa."

     "How many returned?"

    " Five of us, Bìxîa"

    "In what state respectively?"

     "Three badly hurt, two Hale, Bìxîa."

      Ja Lia beckoned to the black gladiator he had been observing closely recently and girded him in the following biddings, his eyes basked in ire and rage:

     "Feed those three to the recently caught Leopards, they'd be famished. The three are of no use anymore. They'd be liabilities to this fort and I won't suffer that. Never! What resources is there to waste?"

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