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Chapter 26 - A Different Territory
It was the Frost Giant’s chief that invited Alarick and Randal inside, and a guard of some kind accompanied them.
Alarick and Randal walked among the city towards the hut of the chieftain.
Alarick's shoulders were tense. The females were about his size, and the males taller, but their back curved in strange ways. They were far from what he considered human.
Yet, he came from one of them.
He could not feel any connection to these people.
He looked at some females passing through with dead wild pigs on their shoulders, primitive weapons on their hands, and he tried to imagine calling any of them mamkka. But it was the image of Aefstine that fluttered in his mind, and squeezed at his heart.
If he didn't know any better, he'd say he came from Aefstine's womb somehow. His first memories of childhood being in his mamkka's lap, grabbing at the jug of hot milk, his mamkka's laughter and kisses and warmth…
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