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The food they gave her was thick red meat, half-cooked. They sat down beside her, three of the old men, together in a small bare hut. None of them ate. They watched her, grinning, speaking lowly and incoherently among themselves.
She felt like a blue-ribbon heifer. Best of breed. She found out that she couldn't eat very much.