Night fell again in the hinterland of the Thorny Desert. Rikka, whose face was red from drinking, was helped back to the stone house by Christine. Boom first stuffed the little girl into a bearskin blanket, and then continued to read ancient books.<
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As for Perseus and Hastur, they were roasting scorpions and snake meat by the bonfire outside the stone house. The female worm Al...