Eleeza's Eyes (Gambar 7)

Eleeza entered the staring contest with a blue veil over her face.

The staring starter counted down  to the start of the stare.

At the command to "stare", Eleeza removed the veil from her face.

Gambar held his breath and honed in on her eyebrow.

There was no eyebrow upon which to focus.

Gambar exhaled and looked into Eleeza's eyes.

He fell in love.

He blinked.

He lost.

Two seconds into the match, it was all over.

Gambar's gimmick was revealed to all.

He was a brow beater.

Eleeza replaced her veil and departed.

The Islanders seized the inlanders.

They loaded the inlanders onto a boat made of the skins of previous brow beaters.

They tied a rope around Gambar's leg. They attached a seventy five pound stone to the rope around Gambar's leg.

They paddled the boat away from the shore for "fifteen"  minutes.

They explained to Gambar and Glork that after five "minutes" underwater, they would pull Gambar to the surface. If he was still alive, his brow beating would be forgiven. He and Glork would be allowed to become slaves.

If not, the skin boat would get a little more fortified.

They threw Gambar, the rope and the stone into the blue earth with ripples.

Glork watched Gambar disappear into the blue earth.

Gambar thought only of Eleeza and her eyes.

He held his breath.