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The ry?”

“Yes,” Mara said

“Better get et to Sevens Helet stuck out here after dark Gets fuckin’ cold, and I ain’t getting cold for you, so you better keep up”

Keep up? Mara stood and walked toward the horse The man turned it and walked away “Hey, wait a minute”

“Ain’t got time to wait”

“Can’t I come on the horse?”

“This is ht one if you didn’t wanna walk”

“I haven’t got one”

“That’s why you’re walkin’ Now cooin’” The man kicked the horse, and it walked on

Mara didn’t knohat to say I have to walk? Why won’t he let me up there? I don’t like him Mara looked back into the Shadow Forest, then back at the man He was stuck with him

They’d walked through the sin grass for hours Covered in flies, Mara was hot, tired, hungry, and sick of the smell of the man’s sour roll-ups he constantly srass

“Can we have a rest?” Mara said

The man stopped the horse, scratched his neck, then looked up at the blue sky “What for?”

“My legs are tired”

“That’s cause you ain’t got an ’orse” Thetied to the horse’s saddle, pulled out a skinny piece of dried meat, took a bite, and threw the rest at Mara’s feet “Eat that”