Meredith"The houses are smaller down here," I said.He didn't slow. "They're older. We built outward from this part, not toward it."It was the most he'd given me since the yard, and I took it, because the silence had started to get hard to walk in. We were well past the administrative grounds by then, past the places Silverthorn had put up to keep its order, and the further down we went the rougher it got. The receiving yard was still sitting with me as we walked. I kept turning over the cold way he'd made that man stand inside his own words, and how close his anger had come to the surface before he folded it into a route and three cycles and a cost the man could actually feel.He hadn't brought me down here for the air, that much I was sure of, but I knew better than to push him for the reason before he was ready to give it. I heard shouting, and my body went tight, because I'd had enough of arguments for one morning.The sound changed as we got closer and I realized with a start
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