{"id":39,"date":"2013-09-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2013\/09\/29\/29-capture\/"},"modified":"2013-09-29T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T14:00:00","slug":"29-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2013\/09\/29\/29-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"29. Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Unfinished Song: Initiate<\/i><\/a>\"\"<\/i><\/p>\n

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\u2026the men cudgeled his back. The blows brought agony without the solace of oblivion \u2014the warriors knew their art, and steered their blows away from his head, aiming to hurt and subdue, not kill\u2014yet. They tied his hands and feet, yanked his hair to expose his neck.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A mountain of muscle tattooed on both arms and both cheeks loomed over Kavio.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe death blow is mine, blame or fame. You are all witness,\u201d the leader barked at his men.<\/div>\n
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They grunted back.<\/div>\n
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This man knows who I am<\/i>. Unfortunately, their acquaintance was not mutual.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI know why you plan to kill me,\u201d Kavio announced. Bold lies worked best. \u201cBut just the opposite is true.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The leader shot a beefy hand out to grip Kavio\u2019s neck. \u201cDon\u2019t waste my time.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cLet me prove it.\u201d \u201cHow ?\u201d Good question. Kavio would bet his mother\u2019s goat and toss bones<\/div>\n
the big man and his sept of disciplined warriors weren\u2019t petty bandits. The big man fought for kin and glory, but whose? What was his rank? Too good to be a mere sept leader, too far in the wilderness to be a War Chief. A war leader, then.<\/div>\n
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\u201cTake me to your War Chief and let him decide after he hears my proposal,\u201d Kavio dared him.<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy should I waste War Chief Nargono\u2019s ears on your begging?\u201d<\/div>\n
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Nargono was War Chief of the Blue Waters tribe, once an ally of Rainbow Labyrinth, now one of his father\u2019s bitter foes. To be fair, his father had a knack for embittering foes.<\/div>\n
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\u201cDid you know my own father once gave me as a slave to the War Chief of Yellow Bear?\u201d Kavio asked. \u201cYellow Bear\u2014are they friends of yours?\u201d<\/div>\n
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The big man glared at him through narrowed eyes. Whatever he saw, it bought Kavio another day of life. \u201cDump him in the boat.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cGag him, Rthan?\u201d asked a warrior.<\/div>\n
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Kavio trotted the name through his memory, but it didn\u2019t sound familiar.<\/div>\n
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\u201cNo, I want him to talk.\u201d Rthan unclenched Kavio\u2019s throat one finger at a time.<\/div>\n
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The Unfinished Song: Initiate (Start at the Beginning of the Novel) “Captured” by Arwen Danelle Robertson,\u00a0arwenart.com Kavio \u2026the men cudgeled his back. The blows brought agony without the solace of oblivion \u2014the warriors knew their art, and steered their blows away from his head, aiming to hurt and subdue, not kill\u2014yet. They tied his hands […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-initiate-excerpt","category-kavio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}