The shadows lengthened over the deep desert as
Silver Lover of the Lightning lay flat on her belly. Hidden behind the crest of the long scalding hot dune and watched the outlanders come with their slaves soldiers, and an escort of her former countryman. Soon the time to strike would come and she would lead her warriors upon them but it was not quite yet for she felt that something else
must happen first something terrible strange, utterly portentous and unprecedented.
In the column below
Gelmuxi Yofahu plodded at the head of his troops enjoying the desert heat as his man & they where all man all pitiful fifty of them trudged & sweated in their heavy armoured coats and behind the menagerie of hunters servants slaves & local troops followed on he would have to call a halt soon he new but he was hoping for a while longer before his local guide advised him it was a good place to camp.
to be continued........
Ginger
