LYSSARA
She told me in a specific way that people said things they had been carrying for a long time. They didn’t do so with the performed efficiency of a disclosure designed to minimize the teller's exposure. With the careful weight of someone who had been deciding for a considerable period whether to say it at all and who had arrived at the saying and was going to say it completely or not at all.
I did not interrupt.
I had come to the boundary to receive what she had, and receiving required the complete quality of attention that left no room for interruption, and I was going to give it because the last time Nythera had something to tell me, I had received it incompletely, and the incomplete receiving had cost eleven months and everything eleven months contained.
She told me about Dra
