Jim just about heard Ralph's question and despite the heat and the smoke he still managed to feel offended. "ME?" (He would have said 'What am I doing? What are you doing?' But wasn't sure he could get it out without choking. "You walk in here like cough cough robot cough and ask me what cough here! Cough to get you out before cough roast!"
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About that time Anni recalled how terrorists might attack this place if she thought the sligs were horrible, and this woman was a native after all. She should probably defuse that issue, even if it meant exposing her lie. "It's not the sligs; they're mostly ok here. There was one horrible one but he left."
She left it at that, still having no inclination to say more.
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