"Who are you?" she demands, too annoyed that someone dares to be afraid that someone is. "What are you doing in my room? It is outrageous!" The someone who is breathes like a half-burned leaf going up a chimney. There is no answer. Suddenly she is afraid, and she traces on her mirror a diagram, one her mother taught her when she was a little girl, to protect her. The someone who is finally speaks, with a voice like a grate being placed over the chimney, so that birds do not build their nests inside and die in the smoke when a fire is lit. "I'm keeping the rats away from you."
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"Who are you?" she demands, too annoyed that someone dares to be afraid that someone is. "What are you doing in my room? It is outrageous!"
The someone who is breathes like a half-burned leaf going up a chimney. There is no answer.
Suddenly she is afraid, and she traces on her mirror a diagram, one her mother taught her when she was a little girl, to protect her. The someone who is finally speaks, with a voice like a grate being placed over the chimney, so that birds do not build their nests inside and die in the smoke when a fire is lit.
"I'm keeping the rats away from you."