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- “I’m just saying,” River Shoulders’ rumbling voice said, “you just draw two little lines from the corner of your mouth and then we have a public relations act. Humans love ventriloquists.”
- Ramirez replied in an exhausted, bemused voice. “It might take more than that to establish relations between the Forest People and humanity at large.”
- “Gotta start somewhere,” River Shoulders said.
- “And the first place you went was a ventriloquist act?” Ramirez asked. “Maybe we should live through the night first. Then think it through for a while.”
- “Mmmmm,” River Shoulders rumbled. “Probably smart.”
- My eyes adjusted enough to make out dim shapes, and I said, “All right, folks. Let’s get a move on.”
- The hound ran forward and leapt into the air, and a hawk soared away.
- Man. I needed to learn how to do stuff like that one of these days.
- “All right,” I said, “we—”
- River Shoulders scooped me up in his other arm and bounded forward.
- Now, I don’t know if you’ve ever been scooped up by a Sasquatch or not, but it isn’t the sort of thing you forget. I’m a pretty big guy. River lifted me as if I were a toddler. And when he ran . . .
- It wasn’t running, really, in any typical sense. It was more like a series of alternating single-leg broad jumps, covering thirty feet at a stride. River went from zero to maybe fifty miles an hour in three steps, and damned near gave me whiplash doing it.
- The gunfire swelled rapidly as we reached Montrose and Clarendon.
- Battle Ground Chapter 14, Page 137-138
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