”“Tell me aloud what you promise. Hank Wertner’s got forty on his own hook, and must run sixty more out along the Drop for the Barony. It’s not going to happen unless there’s a stumper in Jake’s book, she thought. Roland saw a hundred people he had known (and mostly liked) during his time in Mejis.
“Charyou tree,” she said at last, pronouncing it as Roland had: chair-you tree, with a little upturned vowel at the end. “Sorry,” Eddie said. He hardly felt it, in fact. Susan thought back across what she’d just said, realized what must have struck him, and gave a small, embarrassed laugh.
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