This discouraged all but a few of thebravest, most foolhardy captains, and most of the small boats turnedback for the shore. Heavily outnumbered,Osman transformed the town into a huge defensive zareba. He was running out of time and threw everything into theattack. Amber was still voiding copiously.
Saffron laughed. The Mahdi dismissed the firsttwenty or so, who interested him not at all, with a curt gesture of hisleft hand. He snapped the breech closed. ed in a struggle with the localchieftains of Izumo or with a rebellious faction in that province;was
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