He insisted that he wouldn’t, couldn’t go to the breadlines at Ara’s Landing. “No” and “Curses!” were all he seemed to say in those first few days. They would all meet up by the palace or near the Northeast Gate then peddle their wares around the city until midday while Nira was out scavenging. Nira sometimes sent one of her followers to trail them and shout threats and Elna trembled but said she didn’t mind too much, now that she had beads in her pockets. Darna pretended not to hear them, and if Giri understood what they were saying he didn’t worry much about it.
He learned to speak the language of Theranis much more quickly than Darna had learned Cerean in her midday meals with the sailors. That made her even less inclined to tell him what little she knew – she didn’t want him thinking
