The words inside words.
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She loves the waiting sound, then the pitch rising, the pulling away. She is amazed her brother’s don’t wake, how much Jamaal and Muxsin sleep. How hard they will be to drag off the bed, the boys’ bed, Jamaal, Muxsin, Father, out of Angel Lodge, along Love Lane, up Back Lane.
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Ugh. Xoriyo shudders. Closes her eyes. In all the cajoling and pushing of her brothers no one will notice how she has to walk eyes closed, not looking up.
Today she will say No. There must be another path, a way round, or over, why can they not go over the Golden Bridge?