<span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Davey was currently content to just listen to nature, or even just what the others felt like talking about. unless it was really stupid.  Besides, didn't Jackie just accuse them all as being more chatty than women?  He considered throwing her playful little observation back at her, but she might think it was rude.  He would like to have spoken normally to Jackie, he really wanted some time to talk and it just be the two of them, but that wasn't how things were at this time.<br/>
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He replied to Jackie's question with, "I'm good."<br/>
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So he continued walking and carrying Xena.  He occasionally pointed out things along the path and talked about how humans saw things in the world.  He had to catch his breath between sentences.</span></span>