Chapter Four South through the Forest When Kalesh made to leave the hut of Haramop with his women, the dead man’s other six wives were still standing silently in the outer room, naked and side-by-side as he had left them. Their eyes were fearful. Obedient to the man who already had slain their swaggering husband, they had not dared move, lest they be seen as disobeying their rightful new master. It was a pleasant thing to see, and he liked the very thought of it, too. Yes, he thought slowly, this indeed was how they should behave… Yet though he glanced longingly at the soft bare bodies displayed unto him and almost considered taking a few of the prettier ones along as well, he resisted the urge. Oh, yes, for there were some whose big stiff-tipped breasts almost sang to his trembling han

