[ The cost of speech is a laddering cough, each step wheezing dry until it banks off the crud in his lungs. He still takes one more short puff before he holds it back out to her, the better to busy himself with uncapping a water flask he has handy. ]
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[ The cost of speech is a laddering cough, each step wheezing dry until it banks off the crud in his lungs. He still takes one more short puff before he holds it back out to her, the better to busy himself with uncapping a water flask he has handy. ]