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as she heard the triumphant sound which was
bursting from the blond giant, she too could not hold back her pent up
emotions. Running towards him, she threw herself into his arms.
Oblivious of everything except each other for the moment, including
the way in which the hobbled banar-gatahs were displaying alarm over the menacing roar
Bunduki had uttered, they kissed long and passionately.
    ‘ Whew!’ Bunduki ejaculated, after their emotional turmoil
had been sated by the embrace. Separating, they began to take
notice once more of their surroundings. ‘I’d hate to go
through that again.’
    ‘ Well,
if you should have to,’ Dawn replied, although she agreed with the
sentiment, as she glanced pointedly at their snorting and rearing
mounts, ‘I hope that you remember how hearing a “Hairy Man”
bellowing frightens gatahs. Those two are going to be too nervous to be any use to us
for hunting the quaggas today. Not that it matters, though. Howling
like you did has probably frightened them away.’
    ‘ It’s
too late for us to do anything about them today, anyway,’ Bunduki
called after the girl as she hurried towards their mounts. ‘And
another thing, the way you’re nagging me now, I think I’ll tell
Tav-Han I want the tiger’s skin back.’
    ‘ You
just try it, my lad,’ Dawn warned over her shoulder, the item in
question having been given to Joar-Fane’s father in lieu of her own
parents as the traditional bride price from a Telonga hunter. ‘I’m
not letting you wriggle off the hook that easy.’
    ‘ I could always run away,’ Bunduki pointed out, walking over
to the bear with the intention of retrieving his knife. ‘I could
always beat you in a foot ra—’
    The words trailed away as the blond
giant saw two mounted figures coming over a ridge some distance to
the southeast.
    Apart from the
pa rty of
Amazons under Beryl Snowhill’s command, no riders were likely to
behave in a friendly manner!
    In spite of the distance being
too great for any positive identification, as one of the newcomers
was clearly a man, Bunduki felt certain that they could not belong
to the Earth woman ’s all female party!

Chapter Three – Don ’ t
Come Back While They Live
    Although
Charole ’s
support for Dryaka in the abortive attempt to sacrifice Dawn of the
‘Earths’ had caused her to forfeit the title, ‘Protectress of the
Quagga God’, she knew that she was fortunate not to be dead. What
was more, staying alive in her present circumstances was anything
but a sinecure. However, being a woman of spirit and resolution,
she was determined not only to stay alive but also to regain her
position of power in the Mun-Gatah nation. She realized that
achieving her aims would be far from easy, which was why she was
taking the chance of returning to her villa before attempting to
escape from Bon-Gatah. Concealed at her private quarters were some
items which she felt sure would help her attain her
ambition.
    When Charole and the High
Priest had been knocked over the parapet of the
temple ’s
balcony at the unexpected conclusion of the sacrificial ceremony,
they had fallen with him in the upper position. So his body had
shielded her from the blast of the ‘Terrifier’ which had been
thrown by one of the invaders and had exploded above them. By a
piece of equally good fortune, another of the devices which she had
been about to ignite had been knocked from her hand before she
could do so. If it had not been, it would have gone off beneath her
and she would have had no protection from its fury.
    Charole had also benefited from
having been clad in the attire prescribed for the Protectress when
a sacrifice to the Quagga God was being made. Her magnificently endowed body
was protected by a sturdy metal helmet with a crest made from the
mane of a quagga, a thick oak brown breastplate of specially
hardened leather, a brief kilt, greaves and sandals of the same
material. So, despite having been stunned by the landing in the
arena,