Aboli left his station at the starboard battery of cannon and ran backto where Hal paced his quarterdeck. He showed no sign of having understood. Sabah knew of this post,for I showed it to him on the night I returned to fetch my sister. A tempest of disrupted air struck them so viciously that Hal was hurledbackwards and thought that he had been hit by a ball.
What ails you, Manseer? Hal asked. Sam held him as he tried to loosen the ropes that held thecanvas cover in place. Aboli had kept a place for him in the bows, under the lee of theforward cannon where they were out of the wind. Then she turned her head and looked straight at him.
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