She knew the orchard belonged to one of the Simowa women. But it didn’t matter since hunger had most Shaingwans of their sense of morality. Few minutes later, she was on her fourth orange, tearing the skin of the ripe fruit with her overgrown fingernails when she suddenly dropped it out of fright.
The fear that gradually enveloped her almost rendered her dumb, as her entire body shook in front of Hairy Jim. She simply watched him as he spoke through his nostrils, while remembering how heartless the fair beasts were. Sharkoti and Darjer were evidence of that fact. As her body rattled over, she prayed that the fair beast give her a quick death, before doing whatever he had in mind to do. While Hairy Jim talked to the plump savage, he felt like he’d just won a jackpot. Back at the empire, he
