[ but several of them at once, of course, with the numbers on one board being added or retracted from those of another according to a complicated set of rules.
and while she sets that up, she listens to the story — one might not expect him to be great at telling stories, but he is, and after he is done she is silent for a long while, so long that he might suspect she is not going to answer at all — ]
Ah, [ she says then, a half-syllable that sounds a little choked — but so short is that that if it were anyone else than him, it might be easy to think it imagined, as then she continues in a normal, level voice, ] An interesting story... it could be one of warning, if it didn't have the daughter's devotion to her mother.
[ and certainly it illustrates his background well — the importance placed on family, on remaining filial. ]
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[ but several of them at once, of course, with the numbers on one board being added or retracted from those of another according to a complicated set of rules.
and while she sets that up, she listens to the story — one might not expect him to be great at telling stories, but he is, and after he is done she is silent for a long while, so long that he might suspect she is not going to answer at all — ]
Ah, [ she says then, a half-syllable that sounds a little choked — but so short is that that if it were anyone else than him, it might be easy to think it imagined, as then she continues in a normal, level voice, ] An interesting story... it could be one of warning, if it didn't have the daughter's devotion to her mother.
[ and certainly it illustrates his background well — the importance placed on family, on remaining filial. ]