( Speaking? Spoken to? Yes. Yes, but she eats now, fish corseted between her two hands, mouth red-rimmed and eager. She seems only distantly to understand the bird-woman's question enough to nod in retaliation, in between angry bites of the fish that sleeps in her reach.
Good. Very good. More would be even better. )
More fish? ( No. She must assert herself. Land people, it is always so: you do not ask, they do not listen. They do not give. ) Answer. But more fish.
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( Speaking? Spoken to? Yes. Yes, but she eats now, fish corseted between her two hands, mouth red-rimmed and eager. She seems only distantly to understand the bird-woman's question enough to nod in retaliation, in between angry bites of the fish that sleeps in her reach.
Good. Very good. More would be even better. )
More fish? ( No. She must assert herself. Land people, it is always so: you do not ask, they do not listen. They do not give. ) Answer. But more fish.
( A sound tradeswoman and a deal well done. )