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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ great effort, pushed him over and looked at his face.
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"His eye is dead!" she shouted.
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"Kewedjjí," Sávv said in the tongue of the East[^2]. "Ridiculous. How can
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-an eye die and leave its owner behind?" But he saw that it was true; one
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+an eye die and leave its owner alive?" But he saw that it was true; one
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of his eyes was a beautiful, bright green, but the other had faded to
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a sphere the color of wet stone, cloudy and empty.
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@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ telling them all of Káffaśwerṯal and that he walks once again.
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"For a day, he would not move, and only stirred on occasion, to ask
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where the red-bearded man had gone. But the next day, he sat up
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-and spoke to Bezén, and asked for Shimákhts grains and water, and
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+and spoke to Bezén, and asked for Śimáxts grains and water, and
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Bezén brought them from his garden and asked him what had happend."
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"What happened to him?" people crowded around to ask. "Why did he
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@@ -124,13 +124,13 @@ said. "He and I found an inn on the way to Suráv and stayed, and he
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asked me what I knew about it. I told him—truthfully—that I did not
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know what it was, and he told me that he was a man of many evil things.
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He told me that in his youth he joined a gang of thieves and murderers
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-and that his crimes were so many that they eventually forced him to
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+and that his crimes were so many that even they eventually forced him to
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leave.
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"He also told me that he invoked the gods constantly during this time
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and that his prayers fell of deaf ears. The gods, he said, would not
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grant him favors, and if his prayers came true, it was because they
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-had come true anyway. One night, when he had been arrested and was
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+would have come true anyway. One night, when he had been arrested and was
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lying alone in a flooding jail cell in the summer rains, he cursed
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the gods so much his voice became hoarse.
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