You swear?
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— Juras?
— You swear it?
— You swear it?
He will not take the word without the oath — a small cruelty, forcing her to weight her lie with heaven's name. In a house where her prayers a moment ago were the only shelter she had, he now makes her spend that same heaven to cover him.
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