Meanwhile, there were plenty of things that did come: flies, dragonflies, humming-birds, all flitting around. Perhaps, she thought, they were waiting for darkness. But they didn't come, at least by daylight. At the back of her head was the fear that the freaks would come and find her. So now she was down, and she was too weak to get up again too damn heavy ever to get her fat ass up and moving. Incantations beyond any we knew of and to this day they are still beyond any I have ever encountered in my travels. And there were other things-like my little dancing maiden-that were even more marvelous. Sometimes they would even cautiously show such a bauble to us, something that would be well beyond the modest profit my father's herds earned: lutes that when strummed by a stable boy would make him seem a fine troubadour a gown, or even a veil, that would turn the most coarse serving wench into a dazzling seductress. Luxury items that had passed from hand to hand, their price increasing at each step. But all who had traveled to the east had seen their trade goods. Nor did any claim to have even seen their border posts. And not one of them ever said he had visited the Far Kingdoms. Nevertheless, Janos said,it was most interesting listening to their tales. I was going to bring it to you for the same reasons as this merchant woman. I was going to ask you if you wanted the scarf.
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