If so, she might after all be able to make it as far as Never Lane and Nowhere House.
″All right,″ she said, ″I'll come too, but wouldn't it be quicker if I carried you?″ AFRAID NOT, Cassiopeia replied.
″Why should you insist on crawling there by yourself?″ Momo said, but all she got was the enigmatic reply: THE WAY'S INSIDE ME.
On that note the tortoise set off with Momo following slowly, step by step.
They had only just disappeared down a side street when the shadows around the square came to life,
and the air was filled with a brittle sound like the snapping of dry twigs: the men in gray were chuckling triumphantly.
Some of their number, who had stayed behind to keep a surreptitious watch on Momo, had witnessed her reunion with Cassiopeia.
The wait had been a long one, but not even they had dreamed that it would yield such results.
″There they go!″ whispered one gray voice. ″Shall we nab them?″ ″Of course not,″ hissed another.
″Let them carry on.″ ″Why?″ demanded the first voice.
″Our orders were to capture the tortoise at all costs.″ ″Yes, but why do we want it?″ ″So it can lead us to Hora.″
″Precisely, that's just what it's doing now. We won't even have to use force.
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