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"These are not the goods of the promise," said the man of the canyon people to Japha and Mereed. He shook his head sadly at them.

"We never said they were," replied Mereed politely. Apparently Japha wasn't permitted to speak the canyon man elder, while Mereed was. The canyon people were known to have some strange rules, and in their present position Japha and Mereed had little choice but to follow the rules they had been told applied to them.