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Mo’s voice sounded as cool as the air ed fabric "But you and Meggie wouldn’t hear of another one"

"Hoas Ito knohat this story would turn you into?" Resa’s voice sounded as if she hardly kne to hold back her tears Go back to sleep, Meggie told herself

Leave the two of the in the cold night air "What are you talking about? What’s it supposed to have made me into?"

Mo spoke softly, as if he didn’t want to disturb the silence of the night, but Resa seeotten where she was

"What’s itwith every word "You wear a sword at your belt! You hardly sleep, you’re out all night Do you think I can’t tell the cry of a real Bluejay fro Man came to fetch you ere at the faro with theer!

You went to Oh the Prince warned you not to And now you coht you, and act as if it were all a ga so softly that Meggie could hardly hear hiotten what this world is made of?"

"I couldn’t care less what it’s made of You can die in it, Mo

You know that better than I do Or have you forgotten the White Women? No, you even talk about them in your sleep Sometimes I almost think you ie knew Resa was right Mo had talked to her about the White Woie," he had said "They fill your heart to the brio with them, wherever they take you"

"Please, Mo!" Resa’s voice was shaking "Ask Fenoglio to write us back again! He’ll try to do it for you He owes you that!" One of the robbers coughed in his sleep, anotherWhen at last he did reply he sounded as if he were talking to a child Even to Meggie he didn’t speak like that

"Fenoglio isn’t writing at all these days, Resa I’o to Orpheus! You’ve heard what Farid says Orpheus has written rainbow-colored fairies into this world, and Unicorns and--"

"So? Maybe Orpheus can add solio’s story here and there But he’d have to write so of his own to take us back to Elinor I doubt if he can do that And even if he can -- fro himself the richest man in Ombra Do you have the money to pay him for his words?"

This tiht have been ain, as she hen she left her voice behind in the Inkworld

It was Mo who finally broke the silence

"Resa!" he said "If we go back now I’ll be sitting in Elinor’s house doing nothing but wondering how this story goes on, day in, day out And no book in the world will be able to tell oes on" Noas Resa’s voice that sounded cool "You want to decide what happens You want to be part of it! But who knohether you’ 11 ever find your way out of the letters on the page again, if you tangle yourself up in them even more"

"Even more? What do you mean? I’ve seen Death here, Resa-- and I have a new life"

"If you won’t do it for o on -- "then go back for Meggieand for our second child I want my baby to have a father, I want the baby’s father to be alive when it’s born -- and I want hiht up its sister"