Chapter Fourteen – Inside the Dandrobian Mind
DESPITE THE RECESS, when the meeting resumed the squashpumps had not moved an inch on their insistence on half a per cent extra in reparations. They refused to relent, and it seemed to Carrie that even they were bored with the stalemate, or some other emotion that she could not quite put her finger on. The slug-like creatures were very hard to read, and there had never seemed to be an opportunity for her to get to know them better.
For their part, the dandrobians refused to agree to the increase in the nicest, most polite manner possible.
The endless, repetitive back and forth wore Carrie’s patience tissue-thin. Her facial muscles ached from being fixed in a rigor of engagement and interest for hours as the discussion went round and round. T
