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"Where is your home, Nįrello? Do you come from around these parts?"
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The boy shook his head. "No. My home was up North. Was." he added softly and for a moment he looked very much like the small boy that he was. "Awyrgan found me," he continued. "And now I follow him." His grin returned. "Even when he doesn't want me to. When I see him I tell him things I see and then he teaches me things. About the trees and such." He smiled. "Most people don't think a child a threat to their conversations. Many have learned otherwise."
He looked up at her again with pride in his eyes. "I have quick eyes and ears and can move without being seen. I can survive on my own." She started to say something but he continued. "But it is lonely sometimes though, and animals seldom talk. Neither does Awyrgan when I see him. He moves like a shadow." He laughed. "I thought he was a ghost the first time I saw him, like the tales my mother told me to make me go to bed." Realizing how he had just spoken his voice trailed off and he quickly began to pay attention to the apples and the drink in ernest.
[ January 10, 2003: Message edited by: Carrūn ]