As they jeered and threw more pebbles and small stones at her she put
up her arms in self-defense, although a larger boy managed to cast some
larger rocks that bruised her badly when they struck her shoulders and
forearms.
When Si'Wren turned and fled, they chased her, calling vile names. They
reviled her Invisible God, crying out, "Stone the idol-breaker!" and
"Where is he?--I can't find him!", mocking her as an outcast of the
people, a scourge upon the land, and an enemy of the gods.
They followed her as she hastened to return to the cypress bungalow of
the field-hands. She continued to shield herself from the stones by
holding up her arms. At the door flap to the bungalow, she threw
herself through the barrier tarp and ducked within, gasping for breath
and weeping from her injuries as they danced without the bungalow,
chanting evil rhymes against her.
They were too afraid to enter, until the brash older boy stepped inside
with a large rock upheld to smite her with. Quick as a flash, L'acoci
seized him by the hair and knocked his own rock against his own head
with his own hand.
With a surprised scream the boy staggered and fell over backwards, then
jumped up and ran bleeding out of the bungalow, at which point the mob
of kids broke and ran.
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