“Her hands have gotten very cold. When nothing happened, he breathed deep again, and risked a smile. The pipe (she could now see oil bleeding out of its old joints, even in the weak moonlight) ducked under the gate; they went over it. His eyes dropped to the ball, both wanting and fearing to see that pink spark of life deep inside.
” Jake squatted for a better look, and when Oy dropped his head on Jake’s knee, the boy stroked him absently. “Someone ought to put me down, so they should. Despite his stupefaction, Roland caught it in midair. Avery had been fetched by Sheb from the jailhouse, where the Sheriff o’ Barony had been sleeping off the Mayor’s ceremonial dinner in one of his own cells.
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