“You’re the one whose mouth isn’t moving,” Ilara pointed out, trying to sound polite, and knowing she was not doing a very good job of it.<\/p>\n
“My mouth isn’t moving,” the mammoth replied, “because I am not eating. I do not eat when I talk, and I do not talk when I eat. Besides, your nose isn’t moving. Of course with such a tiny nose, like whatever that little thing is on your face, I am not surprised.”<\/p>\n
Ilara was starting to get very annoyed. She was about to respond with a really great insult when she had a thought. “Do you talk by moving your nose?”<\/p>\n
“Doesn’t everybody?” The mammoth sniffed, eyeing her suspiciously, and paying especial attention to her tiny nose, which had not moved even once during this entire conversation.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think,” Ilara said, “that this has anything to do with my nose or with your mouth.”<\/p>\n
“You mean,” the mammoth replied, “with my nose or with your mouth.”<\/p>\n
“Yes, that too.” <\/p>\n
“You mean that either.”<\/p>\n
“Yes, that either, um, too.” She didn’t see any point in quibbling. “I think we just sort of can tell what each other is thinking.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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