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“Truth,” he agreed in lizardish. “But then, life is in the journey. If you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story.”
‘If every hand of every man reached out to you in friendship, so it would yet remain they reached from Gann. A true son of Sheul is never tempted, but seeks always to clasp the one hand that reaches down from heaven.”
“To let a lie stand is to speak it with your own throat.”
“Now you have become completely mine,” he said. “Let Sheul who has made you for me witness as I take you from your father’s House and give you the headship of my own. I take you in, Soft-Skin, to be Uyane under me for all the days that remain to you. Hear me and know that you are mine.”
“You want to be my woman. Do not pretend otherwise. I make you feel safe.”
“I don’t believe in your stupid god.” He snorted. “It amazes me each time you say that, as if you truly believe it is necessary that you do.”
“People make their own choices,” said her mother, now walking away behind her. “And God has to let them live with the consequences.”
