The waiter said to Cao Jiao: "I can't tell you where that bride is, you people in Xuanwu Kingdom are rich, but not all people welcome you, you are sometimes too barbaric." ”

Cao Jiao took out a stack of cash, in which there were dollars and euros, and he said to the waiter: "Maybe, you want to change to the latest mobile phone, maybe you want to go to the massage parlor, and have fun with those black beauties, or the local indigenous beauties, or even those beautiful white girls, whatever you have fun." However, you need money, and as long as you can give me reliable information, I will pay you, what do you think? ”

The waiter said, "I don't think so, you leave with your money, don't insult me." ”

Cao Jiao said: "You don't like less money? ”

The waiter laughed, and he said, "No, I'm afraid I won't have to die." ”

Silence it and block it when necessary. She could feel a grunt in its throat, its muscles tense, ready to leap. She looked up at Jodala. A thin layer of powdery dust enveloped the tall man's shoulders and long yellow hair, and changed the fur of his dark brown mount to the more common tawny of the breed. She and Winnie are the same. Although it was only early summer, strong winds from the vast glaciers in the north had dried out large grasslands to the south of the glaciers.

She felt Wolf nervously pressing her arm, and then saw another man emerge from behind the shuttle dart wielder, dressed as Mamut might have worn during a great ceremony, wearing a mask with bison horns and clothes painted with mystical symbols.

The Mamut shook a large stick at them and shouted, "Go away, elves! Get out of here! ”

Ella thought it was a woman's voice coming through the mask, though she wasn't sure, though the words were spoken in Mamuta. The Mamut swung his stick again and lunged at them, and Ella held back the wolf. Then the figures in strange costumes began to sing monotonous songs, dance, shake their sticks, and leap high and fast towards them, and then retreated, as if trying to scare them away or drive them away, or at least, succeeded in frightening the horses.

She was amazed at how willing Wolf was to attack, and wolves rarely threatened humans. Still, thinking back to what she had observed, she thought she understood. She used to observe wolves a lot when she was practicing hunting alone, so she knew that wolves were warm and loyal to their own pack.

However, they are adept at driving strangers away from their area, and, as they are known, in order to protect what they consider to be their own. They sometimes bite other wolves to death as well.

To the young wolf cub that Ella had found and brought back to the Mamuta basement, the lion camp was its group, and the others were strangers. When it was less than half an age, it barked at the strangers who came to visit. Now, in this unfamiliar area, perhaps the area of another group, it naturally felt the need to defend itself when it first saw strangers, especially a group of strangers armed with pikes and darts. Why did the people in this battalion carry pikes?

Ella felt something familiar in that monotonous song, and then she realized what it was. The lyrics are sung in a sacred and ancient language. Only Mamut could understand. Ella couldn't fully understand because before she left, Mamut had just started teaching her this kind of speech illiteracy. She did, however, realize that the loud and monotonous song meant essentially the same thing as the words shouted at them earlier, though now it was sung in more beautiful words. This is to warn the strange wolf and centaur spirits to leave them and return to the world of the gods to which they belong.

Ella told Jodara what Mamut had said. She spoke it in Zelandani so that the people in that battalion would not understand.

"They think we're gods? Of course! I should have known this a long time ago. They are afraid of us. That's why they threaten us with pikes. Ella, this problem may arise every time we meet someone on the road. Now, we're used to animals. But most people never thought that horses and wolves could be tamed, and they always used them as food and clothing. He said.

"At the summer convention, the Mamutas were also uneasy at first. It took them a while to get used to keeping horses and wolves nearby. Ella said.

"When I first opened my eyes in a cave in your valley and saw that you were helping Vinnie give birth to Lesser, I thought I had been killed by a lion and that I had woken up in the world of gods," Chodala said. "Maybe I should dismount too, and let them see that I'm alone, and not with Lesser, like some kind of centaur god."

Joddar dismounted, but he still held the rope of the horse's halter. Rayser shook his head, as if trying to avoid Mamut, who was swinging his stick, singing loudly, and getting closer. Winnie stood behind the kneeling woman, rubbing his head against her. Ella guides her horse without a rope or a hitch, relying entirely on the pressure of her legs and the movement of her body.

Hearing a few strange words spoken by the gods, and seeing Jodala dismount from his horse, the wizard sang more vigorously. She begged the gods to leave, promised to perform a godly ceremony for them, and tried to ask for their forgiveness with gifts.

"I think you should tell them who we are," Ella said, "and that Mamut was very upset. ”

Jodala held the reins closer to the horse's head, but Resor was frightened and pulled back, and the squirming Mamut, who was armed with a big club, frightened it even more. Even Winnie was ready to run away, and it was usually much better tempered than its agitated child.

"We are not gods", as Mamut stopped to catch his breath, Jodara shouted, "I am a visitor, a traveler. And she," he pointed to Ella,-- "is a Mamuta, belonging to the Mammoth Firepit. ”

People looked at each other with puzzled faces. The Mamut stopped shouting and dancing, looked at them carefully, and from time to time waved the stick. Perhaps they were tricky gods, but at least they were forced to speak in a language that everyone understood. Finally, this Mamut spoke.

"Why should we believe you? How do we know you're not trying to deceive us? You say she belongs to the Mammoth Firepit. But where is her mark? She had no tattoos on her face. ”

Ella spoke. "He didn't say I was a Mamut, he said I belonged to the Mammoth Firepit. Before I left, the old Mamut of the Lion Camp was training me, but I hadn't fully learned it yet. ”