It was the first time he’d touched another human since he left Ate. There’s no way to farm the high plains or to raise European cattle on them. “There’s a story that the first people in the New World to see Columbus’s ships couldn’t actually see them because such things were too far outside their experience. Jackie froze, staring at them.
“I should have practiced a couple of times,” Poole said ruefully. “That can’t be right. You must have studied this in school, Emma. Being effectively one-handed did not hinder her in any visible sense, even on the ladders, which she ascended and descended with reckless speed.
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