And the simple truth is uggs discount this: There was a girl and her uncle sold her.
     This is what they used to say, where the girl came from: no man may be certain who fathered a child, but the mother, ah, that you could be certain of. Lineage and property was something that moved in the matrilineal line, but power remained in the hands of the men: a man had complete ownership of his sister's children.
     There was a war in that place, and it was a small war, no more than a skirmish between the men of two rival villages. It was almost an ugg boots cheap sale argument. One village won the argument, one village lost it.
     Life as a commodity, people as possessions. Enslavement had been part of the culture of those parts for thousands of years. The Arab slavers had destroyed the last of the great kingdoms of East Africa, while the West African nations had destroyed each other.
     There was nothing untoward or unusual about their uncle selling the twins, although twins were considered magical beings, and their uncle was scared of them, scared enough that he did not tell them that they were to be sold in ugg boots on sale case they harmed his shadow and killed him. They were twelve years old. She was called Wututu, the messenger bird, he was called Agasu, the name of a dead king. They were healthy children, and, because they were twins, male and female, they were told many things about the gods, and because they were twins they listened to the things that they were told, and they remembered.
     Their uncle was a fat and lazy man. If he had owned more cattle, perhaps he would have given up one of his cattle instead of ugg boots cheap sale the children, but he did not. He sold the twins. Enough of him: he shall not enter further into this narrative. We follow the twins.
     They were marched, with several other slaves taken or sold in the war, for a dozen miles to a small outpost. Here they were traded, and the twins, along with thirteen others, were bought by six men with spears and knives who marched them to the west, toward the sea, and then for many miles along the coast. There were fifteen slaves now altogether, their hands loosely bound, ugg boots on sale tied neck to neck.
     Wututu asked her brother Agasu what would happen to them.
     "I do not know," he said. Agasu was a boy who smiled often: his teeth were white and perfect, and he showed them as he grinned, his happy smiles making Wututu happy in her turn. He was not smiling now. Instead he tried to show bravery for his sister, his head back and shoulders spread, as proud, as menacing, as comical as a puppy with its hackles raised.