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What did Mr. Tolkien say in The Hobbit the other night? It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him?”
Anna might not have known what to say, but she knew what to do. Which is often the more important thing, as it turns out.
How funny that she’d said the precise thing. The children were silent. They all simply knew, as one knows the saltiness of butter, the perfect warmth of the first fine day of spring, the smell of rain.
