Chapter 15
The rest of the students arrived as the last sliver of the sun disappeared into the sea, striding in a ragged line in silence down the beach. They stood around outside the women’s defences, dark shapes with here and there the glint of moonlight on knife blades. The effect was sinister, and Damiskos was pleased to find the women remained calm behind their barricade.
“Let them come within range, and then we’ll hurl a few stones,” he instructed in an undertone.
The order was relayed in whispers. The children and some of the household women were in the southern hut, some already asleep. The rest of the party was sitting in the sand behind their defensive perimeter. They had lit a fire to cook fish for dinner, but it had died to embers by this time, and everyone had been yawning b
