The Dyer backed away from him another step and stood watching him, the exaltation in his face clouding slowly over until it was replaced by a strange… - Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Dyer backed away from him another step and stood watching him, the exaltation in his face clouding slowly over until it was replaced by a strange, heavy look; it was as if reasoning thought were laboring to break through the storm of words and feelings and visions that confused him. Finally he turned around without a word and began to run back down the road, into the haze of dust that had not yet settled on his tracks.