way! They'll pass near in the morning! Throw yourselves on their mercy,
beseech their aid if you must-but HOMBRES GAY join HOMBRES GAY with them, so that you HOMBRES GAY may live, and
come to HOMBRES GAY a safe refuge!
HOMBRES GAY Some well of stubbornness HOMBRES GAY within Gianni suddenly brimmed over. And if I
don't?
Then you will die, the face said, simply and severely, at HOMBRES GAY the hands of the
condotierri, or from cold HOMBRES GAY and hunger-but be sure, you will die! It began to
dwindle, hair and beard swirling about it wilder and wilder, hiding it
completely as the voice, too, faded, still saying, Be sure... be sure...
Wait! Gianni cried in his dream. Who are you, to command me so?
But the face dwindled to a tiny dot, still bidding him, Be sure... be
sure... beware... and winked out.
Gianni cried out in HOMBRES GAY anger and frustration-and saw a small fire, not a
swirl of hair, and the giant half-wit staring at him in HOMBRES GAY alarm. HOMBRES GAY gianni
realized that his own shout had waked him, and HOMBRES GAY tried to cover his gaffe by
saying, "It's my watch now. Go HOMBRES GAY to sleep. Gar."
"Sleep?" The giant frowned, puzzled.
"Sleep," Gianni confirmed, and rolled up to his knees. Every
ache in his
body protested, and his head began to throb again-but he hitched himself
close to the fire, took up a stick of kindling from Gar's heap, HOMBRES GAY and said,
"Sleep. I'll tend the fire."
Gar gazed at HOMBRES GAY him for a moment, then lay down right where he was and closed
his eyes. They flew open again, and he demanded, "Giorgio not sleep?"
Half-wit or not, he still had his HOMBRES GAY exaggerated sense of responsibility.
"Giorgio not sleep," Gianni confirmed. He doubted that he could, even if he
had wanted to-not after that dream.
Gar closed his eyes instantly, reassured. Five seconds later, he exhaled
in HOMBRES GAY the HOMBRES GAY quick hiss of sleep followed by the long, slow, measured inhalation,
and Gianni knew he slept indeed.
So. He was alone with his thoughts-a nightmare resealing of that