“The sky was beautiful that morning. A tumble of fluffy, tufted clouds covered the whole from horizon to dome, as if a shearer had flung a new-shorn fleece high into the air. As I watched, the rays of the rising sun lit the edge of each cloud, turning it silver, until suddenly the fleece became instead a mesh of shining metal.”
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“Surrender or die?" Duskfur croaked. "Is that a choice?”
“And if you look' — she nodded at the sky — 'there's a man in the moon.”