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Savage Tales no. 2, Red Nails 1/3, editor Roy Thomas, artist Barry Smith


Valeria After the Dragon

V: No, by Mitra! I'll cut off his damned head! I'll climb back down there and -- OHHH!
C:You'll sit down, wench -- and you'll keep quiet!

Valeria is too shocked either to resist... or to repluse Conan's caresses.

V: At least we won't starve, that fruit...
C: -- would kill us even faster than the bite of the dragon!

C: Those are called the Apples of Derketa, Queen of the Dead. The deadliest poison this side of Khitai.
V: oh

V: Think you know it all, don't you, barbarian? Take your sweaty hands off me long enough to climb that peak, and you'll get a surprise.
C: This is a day for surprises...

C: ...so I'll do just that.

C: HAH! It's a walled city, right enough -- but no herds, or sign of people. Not that the black men who probably live there would help us if they could. They'd just stick us full of spears, before we could...

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