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Call to arms!
"Perhaps, if my brother, Henree Steevuhnz, speaks of his sorrows to his brother chiefs, wrongs to him may be put right."
At Milo's suggestion, Henree rose, and like a summer storm filling a dry stream bed, his words rushed out in a flood. He told of a peaceful party of clan hunters set upon in treachery by a caravan of eatern traders, his third eldest son murdered, two younger sons and a daughter captured and borne back eastward to what terrible fate no one knew.
"Therefore, my Kindred brothers," Henree concluded, "let us move quickly to cross that mightiest of rivers, that we may sooner free from the filthy men of dirt my little sons and my daughter. It is a duty owned by all of us to our Holy Race and to the honored memory of our Sacred Ancestors."
And with Henree's final words, the clan chiefs rose up, vowing to ride together on the bloody trail of revenge...
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