KHESAT CHAKA HAD been sitting for three days now in the small room in the house of Caridal Fere. When she got tired, which was seldom, she rested, but always there were recordings for her to translate if she could, of what had been said by and around the two boys. Faral and Jens spoke together very little these days—and not much, when they did, in the Trade-talk of Maraghai—but Chaka was nevertheless learning many interesting things. And she kept written logs of the translations. Perhaps she was being checked. The servant who had hired her spoke enough Trade-talk to be understood, and to understand in turn if Chaka spoke slowly and simply enough. That one might read the first page, or perhaps the first line, of any translation, and if it matched the recordings well enough, the servant would pass the rest. At least Chaka hoped the rest would pass without a full reading. When the boys talked, it wasn’t always of food or home or old friends. They also spoke of their secret plans and their private opinions of the people around them.
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