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Before Adam

CHAPTER VI
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The horde was animated with a single emotion, that of fear.

The bluff-side swarmed with the Folk, all gazing and pointing into the northeast.

I did not know what it was, but I scrambled all the way up to the safety of my own high little cave before ever I turned around to see.
And then, across the river, away into the northeast, I saw for the first time the mystery of smoke.

It was the biggest animal I had ever seen.
I thought it was a monster snake, up-ended, rearing its head high above the trees and swaying back and forth.

And yet, somehow, I seemed to gather from the conduct of the Folk that the smoke itself was not the danger.


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