Chapter 22 Darrio
22 DARRIO Darrio watched V. She rode on a horse next to the Head Warrior Lizya, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t keep his eye off her. Even though she hadn’t done much other than face forward, occasionally talking to Lizya or c*****g her head to listen as they passed trickling streams, he found her mesmerising. Behind V came five hundred warriors on ponies and then behind them, Darrio and Sarry on foot. Behind the wolves came the half-height, blue-haired, pink-skinned Jute fighters, fronted by their leader, Brinjinqa. The strangest little creatures Darrio thought he’d ever seen, apart from perhaps V’s pet that had twigs sticking out of its body. And these Jute creatures rode on giant beetles. Beetles! He’d once had to eat the little kind when prey had been scarce one bleak
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