But she doesn’t understand it very well.<\/p>\n
“Chime tine keen veal well rill dial chime,” she replies, and her words are a piping octave, her voice a hand on uneven floorboards: what might, elsewhere, be called a marimba.<\/p>\n
The man has stopped bleeding. “You can count, then,” he says. “Good.”<\/p>\n
Millicent traces a lemniscate around Cosette’s ankles. Cosette picks the kitten up and watches the man’s hand, which is holding a short and brutal tailed whip.<\/p>\n
“Don’t ever forget how to count,” he grunts.<\/p>\n
“Marrow callow hollow minnow?”<\/p>\n
“Count the stars if you have to. Just make sure you don’t finish.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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