This follows directly after the posted sections of "Small Mysteries"

Ekanu offered the use of her donkey to Ain, but he shook his head. "I travel light. It's simpler," he said with a tiny smile, as if he meant something more by those words than most people would.

Ekanu shrugged. "I prefer to travel light, but I must carry for the inspection papers and books. When I am already carrying such things, why not take a little extra?"

"Like your little iron pot," Ain said.

"Like my pot," Ekanu agreed as they rejoined the road and turned once more to the south. "And my guitar -- though I would in any case bring that. Guitars are light."

"You play well," Ain said.