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They left the temple just before sundown. The lion had crawled into the shade of some rocks, but stood up unsteadily to watch them go.
"It'll track us," moaned Om. "They do that. For miles and miles."
"We'll survive."
"I wish I had your confidence."
"Ah, but I have a God to have faith in."
"There'll be no And, half an hour later, a black shadowy line on the silver moonlit desert, there were the tracks.
"The soldiers came this way. We just have to follow the tracks back. If we head where they've come from, we'll get where we're going."
"We'll never do it!"
"We're traveling light."more ruined temples.""There'll be something else.""And not even snake to eat.""But I walk with my God.""Not as a snack, though. And you're walking the wrong way, too.""No. I'm still heading away from the coast.""That's what I mean.""How far can a lion go with a spear wound like that in him?""What's that got to do with anything?""Everything."
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