"Okay," she says, carefully gentle. "It sounds like you got a different introduction from most of us, so I'm gonna give you a little more information, if that's all right. Stop me if I say anything you don't understand, okay? And I'll do my best to explain."
If he doesn't object, she's going to go into her own best approximation of -- not Mortanne's introduction, since she's finding herself in some doubt about whether it applies, but Mayor Poe's: the curse, the barrier, the hope of lifting both.
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"Okay," she says, carefully gentle. "It sounds like you got a different introduction from most of us, so I'm gonna give you a little more information, if that's all right. Stop me if I say anything you don't understand, okay? And I'll do my best to explain."
If he doesn't object, she's going to go into her own best approximation of -- not Mortanne's introduction, since she's finding herself in some doubt about whether it applies, but Mayor Poe's: the curse, the barrier, the hope of lifting both.