Do they know we’re here?”“Yes; they’ve got a Seeker with them, tracking us down. It’s the same group that attacked us outside Tir Shar. They...��ve got the knives with the snakes on the hilt.”Corec exhaled. “Well, that’s what we’ve been preparing for. Farmers and villagers again? The ones with the knives, I mean?”“Looks like it, but they had bows last time. I’m sure they will this time, too.”“You didn’t see any?”Razai rolled her eyes. “Why would they be carrying bows in the dark, in the middle of. I almost lurched violently when Iheard a loudnoise as Kyle deliberately hit the table topwith the belt.I moaned andalmost begged "oh please, ....don't..."I was frightened,but tried hard to hide it. I could onlylook back at themstaring at me. Ready to hurt me in some way."Now whiteboy. Time to even up your tan."I gasped, tearsflowing from my eyes. I nodded, bowing myhead, trying toready myself for the belt. Kyle held the thickleather belt up for me to see, wrappingthe buckle endaround his fist.. "Maybe I can," I announced. "Ollie..."Oliver worked his way through it with no more of a hint than that. "It's really your prerogative, Dear. They're nice fellows. Cletus is especially pleasant." Excuse me." I backed out of the group and headed for where the pair had parked themselves near the wall. "Hello, boys!"Both looked wary. "Ma'am." Cletus nodded. "Nobody's mistaken me for a boy in quite some time, but I'll accept it in the spirit in which you offered it." Well, if you get hooked up, we. ”“I wouldn’t hurt a hair on that beautiful head of hers,” he replied.“She’s certainly attracted to you.”“Did she really say to you that she and I would be married someday?”“Yes she did, she says its woman’s intuition. She quoted some African Tribal cultures where the daughter is married off as young as twelve years old and having children starting at puberty. Other tribal traditions had the husband to be giving cattle and goats to the father in exchange for his daughter in marriage.”“I have.