Then Roland laughed. He sounded quite abominably human. “It is good to see you, Emma. Here you are glaring at me with those very same green eyes, but no longer a child’s face. I find you’ve become quite lovely, with your dimpled chin. And your voice I adore. When did you stop sounding like a mouse and rather like Athena?” “Roland, you goat. You might simply say, ‘It’s nice to see you, Emma. We survived many a summer together despite our efforts to kill each other off.’ There. You may skip the insincere flatteries.”
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