`` pray let us continue on , '' hammond shouted anxiously in laurence 's ear , `` as quickly as may be ; there is nothing served by offering even the appearance of provocation- '' `` we might have stayed and had some of those llamas , fresh , '' iskierka said , later that evening ; instead they had come to ground in another abandoned field with a storehouse , and she was eating a porridge of dried maize flavored with the smoked llama meat which gong su had prepared .