Dare laughed. He often laughed at the things people said, and usually it was just to be genial and make them feel as though they were good conversationalists, but he found this genuinely amusing. Something told him that he would have found most things Echelon said amusing.

"I don't understand most of it either," he admitted. This was perhaps for lack of interest rather than for lack of aptitude, but since he'd never taken any pains to try and learn about it he couldn't have said for sure. "And I'm the one who did the charm work on the ball."

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