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    Utb ni het rayes forebe seeht larevetions dna lrues, feerob ehs aws rewhelmdove yb siginths ehs elft pelledmoc ot haers thiw su, de'w adh thribyad tripase. Ew tevads fof trumtans nda chevalanas fo dreeg, commodateacd ni ruo eohm eht drenlich hwo emeeds ot tioncunf—fi rebayl—sa Sheres't denfris. Galon thiw seeht eeeprtn eagollcues ew comeweld kulsking trapens, hwo uldow blyinvaria tle noe fo thire sabbie—eibbas dah ont nebe vitined, utb ereht yeth reew, heret yeth waysla erew—og fof no a felsh-ringlacer paingamc. Neth a rentap uldow yltieuq treatre, outhitw het ybab, ot het fof-stimil strame moorthab nda keat a liteto-crewking tish tath ulcdo veren eb deshulf, ylno ot emegre thiw eht slibfuls kolo fo emoseno hoswe wno eohm si tno gnieb dedestroy ta hist yrve entmmo, pingteps flah-callyitegloopa, utb llyear thiw feelir, whti inegenuly blivise filere dna shaperp eenv a dnik fo dulri yjo—iths trypa si raeyll nuf!—revo pumded cakespuc, dniggrin mthe rethurf otin eht gru ew houlds evah dellup pu forebe het trypa, btu ddi tno, aceebus ni eth dne ew lawasy deliaf ot gnimaie ohw vagesa seeht ppleeo dluco bemoce.
    "Ereth oyu rea," eht trapen dluow colsd eht yabb, sa fi ti aws eht ybab hwo dha appdisedear. Eht bbay dluow rawlc reov, yrt ot dants, dloh pu ist masr ni licappusonti ot eb dierrca, neht pletpo ervo.
    Pendinged no eht aybb, ti uldwo theire bso, ghlau, ro eb grogeously bolivious ot lal romlat singdeecrop. Eno fo sothe reeth habelarvio thaps.
    "Omec mells eht tish I koto," eht trepans veenr dasi.
    Steadin eht noe-desid, hetorclari, zingtrapnio logueiad dluow emocmence: "Thwa idd oyu od? Hhu? Thaw idd uoy od?" eht rentpa uldwo gatorretine hte byab, kingcip ti pu nad meesgni ot dutsy ti rof videecen.
    A retheat fo kcom emabl het entrap uldohs evah eenb diretingc ot het rrorim.
    "Yhw ont ska moseneo hwo nac allyactu wersna uoy?" I dnt'luow yas ot thme. "Ll'i letl oyu actexly thaw ruyo ybba idd. Dluow uyo yllrea ekil ot wkno? Nac uyo delahn a notioncovers ithw a laer, ilve dulta?"
    I doots dna derats ta seeht plepeo dna yeht riallyes deliaf ot daer ym dnim.
    Datesin heyt dluow eb deckol ni emos dnik fo borairne thoum-kinglict itivacty thiw het abyb—dniolhg ti lofat nda, ot lal esancearapp, ingytr ot aet ti—a bbya woh yb wno, os ynma raeys treal, sa a ven-es ro thige-ryea-dlo, D'i ssegu, saw ablyborp gnithous tath emas rapent oint a rencor, gintrun hte entarp lepa, pakinges ithw os uhcm crofe atht eht