Page 209CHENDRY: Before writing, which make notions material, and which we here forswear. Way-words are a sort of... story. A sort of path. As one travels from land-mark to land-mark, one takes steps forward in a story, or a dialogue, or a thought. Each step lays itself upon each land-mark. Thus all the places in the wide Corners grow covered in thought. Thick with it. We here in Ransallet, (motioning towards Spondule extravagantly) we Keepers, as you might call us-- we spend our lives building thought into this one narrow territory. But our guests-- o, Gleaners, you see the stories of the world more richly than many here can guess. Even I-- 10 years since I traveled as a Gleaner, and the way-words of the world begin to fade from my mind.
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