Genetopia
“Little wonder that the crew quarters were at the fore of the boat. There must have been a hundred of the creatures crammed into a line of pens in the bowels of the boat. The pens were half above deck and half below, shaded from the harsh sun only by a scattering of banana leaves weighted in place by rocks.Flint settled back against the side-boarding and chewed on half a flatcake, trying to hold his breath as he ate in order to keep the food palatable.Trader Gillambern would not feed him from th...e boat’s supplies–he had made that much clear–despite the money they had taken from Clarel to pay for Flint’s passage to Farsamy.It was mid-afternoon now, and Greenwater was lost far up stream in the great meanders of the river Transom. By morning they would have reached the river Farsam, well on the way to the city of Farsamy itself.He finished the flatcake and sipped from his water bladder, filled from the rainwater reservoir at the front of the boat. Gillam grudgingly allowed Flint water, at least.It was four days now since Mesteb had returned from Trecosann with word only that Amber was still missing, and that both she and Flint were widely assumed to have run away from their father’s brutality.“How will you get there?”MoreLess
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