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Elsewhere others heard and stopped and waited, the women peering from their lodges then gathering in small, curious clusters.
Early Spring came from her bed, from beside her half-drunk husband, Walitzee, and stood at the entrance way to her lodge hearing the mild commotion, the sound of hushed voices.
Standing there she saw Shades of Night come through the trees and stop beside the lodge, silent, almost imperious, her body taut, simply standing without speaking or moving while the wife of Walitzee waited, perhaps denying the dread that moved in her.
When at last she could suffer the insult no longer, nor face the girl's scorn, she said in a voice overloud:
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