Page 85 of As You Wake, Break the Shell

Yes.

And you’re surprised I

know the word.

Yes. No offense.

None taken. I didn’t know

how onions work.

Nobody knows how onions

or anything else works until

somebody teaches them.

Sure, but I don’t always know

the words I want to use. I’m

clumsy with them, sometimes.

So am I. So is everyone.

It’s one of the things I love

most about being in the saddle.

Everything comes easier when I

don’t have to find the words.

So you’ve said. Tell me

everything, and I’ll look past the

words. Tell me, and let me feel

what’s behind them.

People discovered wild rorquals

skimming through the crest of

a far-off atmosphere, feasting

on storm clouds. They looked

at these beings with their own

home, with their own lives, and

they thought: we could make

use of these. They scooped them

up like fish in a net, tweaked