CONTENTS

Chapter 2 The Message Of The Scytale; I Converse With Samos. 14

Chapter 3 The Fair Of En’kara. 32

Chapter 4 I Reward Two Messengers, Who Have Rendered Good Service. 63

Chapter 5 I Take My Departure From The House Of Samos. 83

Chapter 6 Two Girls Are Made Slaves; I Proceed Northward To Lydius. 87

Chapter 7 I Am Careless In Lydius: I Am Taken Captive. 108

Chapter 8 I Find Myself Prisoner In The North. 114

Chapter 9 I See The Wall; I Am To Be Whipped. 120

Chapter 10 What Occurred In The Vicinity Of The Wall 128

Chapter 11 What Further Events Occurred In The Vicinity Of The Wall; I Again Turn My Eyes Northward; I Pause Only To Reduce A Woman To Slavery. 137

Chapter 12 I Tent With Imnak At The Gathering Of The People; I Advance Arlene A Bit In Her Training. 150

Chapter 13 Imnak Broaches To Me A Topic Of Some Importance; We Encounter Poalu. 167

Chapter 14 The Courtship Of Poalu; What Followed The Courtship Of Poalu. 173

Chapter 15 Audrey. 183

Chapter 16 Imnak Carves. 209

Chapter 17 I First Hear Of Karjuk; I Must Meet Him.. 210

Chapter 18 We Hunt In The Vicinity Of The Permanent Camp. 214

Chapter 19 I Discipline Arlene. 216

Chapter 20 The Feasting House; We Return To The Feasting House. 217

Chapter 21 Arlene. 222

Chapter 22 Imnak And I Hunt Sleen; We Consider The Nature Of The World. 233

Chapter 23 One Comes To The Feasting House. 241

Chapter 24 We Hold Converse In The Hut Of Imnak; A Decision Is Reached; I Permit Arlene To Share My Furs  253

Chapter 25 We Go Out Upon The Ice; We Follow Karjuk. 266

Chapter 26 Imnak Makes A Camp; Poalu Boils Meat 270

Chapter 27 The Face In The Sky; The Codes; Imnak Will Take First Watch. 279

Chapter 28 I Must Conserve My Strength. 287

Chapter 29 The Cage Cart 294

Chapter 30 The Small Arena. 299

Chapter 31 Half-Ear 306

Chapter 32 I Hold Converse With Zarendargar 313

Chapter 33 I Leave The Complex. 318

Chapter 34 What Occurred On The Ice. 321

Chapter 35 I Return To The Complex; What Occurred In The Complex. 326

Chapter 36 To The Victors Belong The Spoils; I Lift A Glass Of Paga. 355

Chapter 37 We Have Left The Complex; We Will Make Our Way Toward The Permanent Camp. 362

Chapter 38 I Shall Return To The South. 366