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He was a bit older than her then, though Bat lied with practiced ease. "Oh, just a little bit older." She found it less difficult to both deliver and stick to an untruth if it was relatively nonspecific. She smiled sideways at him as he joined her, feeling no need to pursue the topic any further than that.

But then it came up again despite herself as Bat observed, "So this is your first winter too. What do you think of the cold so far?" As she spoke, she continued sashaying through the wood. She paused to poke at a cluster of fungi growing near the roots of another oak. They made her think of Ephraim and she moved on quickly, twisting her head to look at Cinder, awaiting his response.