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“If they weren’t after me then, they might be now, anyhow—the harps never shut up, you understand, and I’d be the convenient scapegoat, and they might think that killing me would make the harps stop shrieking.”

“Would it?” asked Oliver, professionally interested.”

“The funny thing —not amusing, exactly, but funny nonetheless— was that he’d been entirely willing to risk his life for the village, and now here they were, demanding that he do something he’d been planning to do anyway, and apparently willing to throw him out on his ear if he didn’t.

He’d be lying if he said that this hadn’t soured his enthusiasm a bit.”