"I been doing it a while," Ezra says, correcting the assumption gently. "Sold for a few years with the others before."
He doesn't trail off, just stops the sentence there. They know what the before means, and Ezra doesn't want to reflect on how it's different, requires different skills and planning when you're not pooling. He could afford to waste a dime on twenty extra papes when he knew Sabine was shifting a reliable number in Chinatown and Hera had her regular spot in Little Italy.
He tightens his face somewhat with the memory and then breaks into a convincing smile for the next customer.
"You think," he says, after that sale is over, "if we find out about others, we might find out what started it?"
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He doesn't trail off, just stops the sentence there. They know what the before means, and Ezra doesn't want to reflect on how it's different, requires different skills and planning when you're not pooling. He could afford to waste a dime on twenty extra papes when he knew Sabine was shifting a reliable number in Chinatown and Hera had her regular spot in Little Italy.
He tightens his face somewhat with the memory and then breaks into a convincing smile for the next customer.
"You think," he says, after that sale is over, "if we find out about others, we might find out what started it?"