Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

used were much more stable and the lagoons of the Caribbeanmuch calmer and her med panel was close at hand.The farmers lived in small groups of stuccoed stonehouses of several rooms each, with toilets that flushed with abucket and little stone gutters that brought water from streamsin the hills. Most had large and ornate pottery bowls forbathtubs and all heated their bath water by letting it sit in thesun in the open courtyard of their home. They always hadgoats or cattle, most had fields of wheat or rye and all hadwell-tended vegetable gardens. Many had grown daughters,and it seemed to Ava it was up to the daughter, with somestrained advice from the father, whether or not the daughterwould share her bed with one of the soldiers. All of this gaveher more encouragement that this land wasn’t as savage as itlooked.Entanglement – Day FiveOn the fourth day of the voyage, they stayed at a cottageso lavish that it even had a guest room with an upholsteredbed big enough for two. At dinner there were some heateddiscussions between the sergeant and the guy who patted herass. The way they looked at her made her believe they werearguing over who was going to get the room with the doublebed. The fact that she was meant to be the other person on388