Sleeping with a number carved in bone hung round your neck is what they call sleep here. Reading that number aloud is my hobby.

• NeilaRead all you like. I'm the one who sets the price.
  SherajanI'd like to hang one round your neck too, but I don't have hands.
• Old Woman TahriThat iron of yours, the break runs upward. Iron that breaks downward never comes back.
  SherajanOld woman. Talk more about iron. That's the only thing that doesn't grate on me.