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She still didn't speak, instead nodding to him in a hollow fashion, over and over. . .and over and over. Shale blinked, stupefied, at the woman, finally shaking his head in bemusement and suppressing a chuckle. If not a disease of the body, she certainly had a disease of the mind.

"Do you live nearby?" he asked, wondering even as he said it why he was still attempting to make conversation with this loon. Surely she would never answer him--at least, not in words he could comprehend. She had been speaking to the moon, for crying out loud.