reconsiders, a moment later, and follows the scattered oak, bending to collect each stick methodically until he's recovered the lot. there is probably not going to be any more work on these today; he loosens the leather strip that holds his hair to the nape of his neck and leans just out of the direct rainfall, beneath a stone overhang, bundling the sticks together and knotting the leather around them. )
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reconsiders, a moment later, and follows the scattered oak, bending to collect each stick methodically until he's recovered the lot. there is probably not going to be any more work on these today; he loosens the leather strip that holds his hair to the nape of his neck and leans just out of the direct rainfall, beneath a stone overhang, bundling the sticks together and knotting the leather around them. )
I don't mean to disagree with you,
( he says, as if she'd spoken. )
But that wasn't productive.