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| 7 | 83 | I View more quotes about returned">returned to the raft and picked up Telima in my arms, carrying her to the high surface of the island where, near the pole, I placed her on the matting. |
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| 7 | 80 | It was quiet. |
| 7 | 81 | A flock of marsh gants, wild, took flight, circled, and then, seeing I meant them no harm, returned to the island, though to its farther shore. |
| 7 | 82 | I saw the pole to which I had been tied, the circle of the feast, the ruins of huts, the litter and the broken things, and the scattered things, and the bodies. |
| 7 | 83 | I returned to the raft and picked up Telima in my arms, carrying her to the high surface of the island where, near the pole, I placed her on the matting. |
| 7 | 84 | I bent to her, and she drew away, but I turned her and unbound her. |
| 7 | 85 | "Free me," I told her. |
| 7 | 86 | Unsteadily she stood up and, with fumbling fingers, untied the knot that bound the five coils of the collar of marsh vine about my neck. |