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What?
I stared at him wordlessly, trying to process his demand. Quit my job? Was he insane?
"I don't want you to have anything to do with anything related to Yllam," he said. "At first, I thought you could be, fine since this is just a temporary position, but yesterday's events did it for me. You should avoid anything related to Yllam."
"Why?" I asked, trying to hold my surprise. "Why do I need to avoid any link to Yllam? Just because I'm of Yllamese origin? But I've never been there. I don't even speak the language."
Reading with the dictionary doesn't count as speaking the language.
"Why do you think they assigned me to watch you, three years ago?" Jack asked.
I stared at him. After he offered me to pay weregild for his guilt and promised me to never report on me, we never ment
