Iara

The scale doubled its price in a single day. When the price jumps, people move faster than the water does.

• CarvalhoThe scale's honest enough. The mouth naming the number never has been.
  IaraYou mean your own mouth.
• VicenteJust send me who was standing there.
  IaraThat'll cost you double.

People upriver don't call this forest by the name the theater folk know. Someone asked. I didn't tell them.

• Old TiburcioI know that name too. Guard the night for thirty years and you hear everything.
  IaraTelling everything you know is exactly what makes you a gatekeeper.
• SabinaI wonder how sound carries out there.
  IaraWith you it's always people you're curious about.