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Lowering her eyes and gnawing upon her lower lips, clearly faltering beneath the young girl’s narrowed gaze; Mirela’s expression regained some semblance of brightness as the boxes were set upon the ground and the girl made her offer.
With the boxes now within his reach, Tafari laughed and grabbed toward both boxes with his hands.
“I guess we’ll take both” Mirela said with a smile, reaching to fish the gold pieces from a satchel tied at her waist.
The girl smiled, and took the money from the woman's sachel. She placed them into a fold of her skirts that had been pinned up to form a makeshift pocket on her hip, then she turned her bracelets around again. With a bow, she was gone, leaving the boxes there on the ground. Inside, two twin dolls waited... an eerie, porcelain silence about them.
