#Lal And Soukyan

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“This is quite interesting. I must tell you that no is very nearly my favorite word. I believe it to be my companion’s favorite word as well, unless I am wrong?” He slanted a bristly gray eyebrow at Lal.

The old woman pondered, as the armed men and their servants rumbled and shifted and laughed amongst themselves, as the boy waited empty-faced for life or death, as the Metzari hound still whined in the thornbush. She said slowly, “Of course, maybe is good, too — maybe is an excellent word. But at the last, when you come down to it, there is really nothing like no.”