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For five minutes the intermittent flashes and bellows told that the / Vings were still hammering away. Then the dark took hold again. / Apparently the two had either recognized each other or else had decided / that night fighting was a bad business and had steered away from each / other. If this last was true, then they wouldn't be much to fear, for / one Ving wouldn't attack the merchant by itself.
The clouds broke, and the big and the little moons spread brightness / everywhere. The pirate vessels were not in sight. Nor were they seen / when dawn broke. There was sail half a mile away, but this alarmed no / one, except the untutored Green, because they recognized its shape as a / sister. It was a merchant from the nearby city of Dem, of the Dukedom / of Potzihili.