Gambar 5 Browbeating

The people who lived near the beach called themselves islanders. They were familiar with stragglers like Gambar and glork and referred to them as inlanders.

The islanders had never encountered two men as inland as Glork and Gambar.

When Gambar first saw the surrounding water, he thought it was blue land with ripples.

That's about as inland as ya get. 

The islanders were sophisticated in their staring. They were very aware of the "look em in the eyebrow rather than the eye" technique which Glork in his ignorance thought he had invented and which Gambar in his innocence obeyed.

The islanders had outlawed this technique. Anyone using the technique was referred to as a "brow beater". 

After Gambar had won a few staring contests near the shore, the word started to spread that Gambar was a brow beater.

Eleeza would put Gambar to the test. 

Eleeza had been born a unibrower. Her parents decided that rather than have their daughter go through her life as a unibrow, they would shave off her brow entirely. Without her brow, Eleeza became a litmus test for inlanders suspected of browbeating. 

Those inlanders would be in for a surprise.

The Islanders had never seen inlanders as inland as Glork and Gambar.