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| 5 | 75 | She was not as the other View more quotes about women">women of the Wagon Peoples I had seen, the dour, thin women with braided hair, bending over the cooking pots. |
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| 5 | 72 | There was the sudden thud of a kaiila's paws on the grass between the wagons and a wild snorting squeal. |
| 5 | 73 | I jumped back avoiding the paws of the enraged, rearing animal. |
| 5 | 74 | "Stand aside, you fool!" cried a girl's voice, and, to my astonishment, astride the saddle of the monster I espied a girl, young, astonishingly beautiful, vital, angry, pulling at the control straps of the animal. |
| 5 | 75 | She was not as the other women of the Wagon Peoples I had seen, the dour, thin women with braided hair, bending over the cooking pots. |
| 5 | 76 | She wore a brief leather skirt, slit on the right side to allow her the saddle of the kaiila; her leather blouse was sleeveless; attached to her shoulders was a crimson cape; and her wild black hair was bound back by a band of scarlet cloth. |
| 5 | 77 | Like the other women of the Wagons she wore no veil and, like them, fixed in her nose was the tiny, fine ring that proclaimed her people. |
| 5 | 78 | Her skin was a light brown and her eyes, dark and fiery, were insolent, charged, and sparkling. |