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The boy nodded, his eyes enormous, but the girl had the temerity to open her mouth and speak.
"Where are we going?" she asked.
Her question implied not resistance but resignation to the fact that I had won, so I decided to permit an answer rather than merely throwing her to the rocks below for her disobedience. Besides, what fun would there be in it if I didn't let them know what was coming?
"Down," I said, and I gave them my true smile, one similar to that of a lion in a circus we had seen the previous autumn.