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Laun could tell she was in a yurlodge, tied and blindfolded. She hurt and knew she had been roughly handled after she had gone into the greyness, the stone floor under her not as smooth as one might think as it put pressure on her hip and shoulder. She had been able to stay still when she woke, the men she could hear talking among themselves, though it was frustrating as they were speaking a mixture of languages and she caught one or two words as she lay there, but not enough to know what their intentions were.
She tried not to smile. She was bound and blindfolded, the bruises on her arms hurting under the rope, her head hurting from whatever they had forced her to drink. She could hear the desert wind against the canvas of the yurlodge, the scuttling of a small animal close to her on the stone floor. She could smell her own blood, but above that, flowers and men.
The remainder of her male disguise was ripped and bunched on her. Sweat was soaking the padding around her middle, but that had been a problem even before she had been captured. The glue that had held the whiskers on had pulled and torn her skin when they had started to fight her, pulling on her beard, finding that it was not real. Then finding she was not a man. Laun was happy she had cut her hair to helmet length, the shortness keeping them from dragging her around by her scalp. Not that it kept them from beating on her before they had forced the drug into her. She did get in some good shots before they had subdued her. »Read More