The Champion’s Companion 22
By mid morning, the group was closing on Mavvus. They were satiated, the squirmy women were mostly curious of their new surroundings. Mara and Rinis watched them still but they were letting the women near the back edge where they could look at the taller buildings that started to crowd the banks around them. The Warrioresses were quiet and satisfied. Janis sat among them, and laid back appearing to rest. Saucrem and Ein giggled in the pygmy’s gibberish. Marcos and Kaarthen sat with Metacari. Of the people on the boat, they were the most alert as they lay back. Kaarthen spoke up. Her unbraided white hair was pooled over Marcos and Metacari as she reclined over them. She was starting to get the ‘glow of pregnancy’ and seemed luminescent. “Where are the women going to …