He took his shirt from the bush and slowly pulled it on. “Stand quietly, as if you did not see him,” he told Otter softly through the buckskin fringe. “Act as if we did not know Eagle Wing was hunting us. He will watch, from where he drew back out of your sight.” “That is true,” agreed Otter as, with a great show of carelessness, he slung his quiver behind his naked shoulder. “We can go together and hunt him down. That war paint on his face shows that he came here to fight.” “No, stop and talk,” Sam said. “If we go fast to chase him, he will turn around and send arrows at us. Two of us can win a fight with him, but one might be killed. It is better to pretend we do not know he is here. We will play some trick and capture him alive.” “We must kill him,” insisted Otter bleakly. “He has come here to kill you, my brother. If we send arrows into him and let him fall dead in the forest, we can call men from Twilight Town to see that he came against us with war paint.”
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