Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
Eli snorted, her eyes narrowed._ Because I am like you._ What do you mean like me? I..Eli thrust her hand through the air as if she was holding a knife, said:_ What are you looking at, idiot? Want to die, or something? _ Stabbed the air with empty hand. _ That what happens if you look at me.Oskar rubbed his lips together, dampening them._ What are you saying?_ It's not me that's saying it. It's you. That was the first thing I heard you say. Down on the playground.Oskar remembered. The tree. The knife. How he had held up the blade of the knife like a mirror, seen Eli for the first time.
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Eli snorted, her eyes narrowed._ Because I am like you._ What do you mean like me? I..Eli thrust her hand through the air as if she was holding a knife, said:_ What are you looking at, idiot? Want to die, or something? _ Stabbed the air with empty hand. _ That what happens if you look at me.Oskar rubbed his lips together, dampening them._ What are you saying?_ It's not me that's saying it. It's you. That was the first thing I heard you say. Down on the playground.Oskar remembered. The tree. The knife. How he had held up the blade of the knife like a mirror, seen Eli for the first time.
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