“"Oh, thank goodness!" he babbled. "I didn't mean it - at least I did, but I don't mean it now, not any more!" He flung one arm around Yam and twisted the other into Mordion's rolled cloak. "They came. They rustled. Don't let them!"”

—  Diana Wynne Jones , book Hexwood

Source: Hexwood (1993), p. 255.

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