"They'll have to be if we're to keep the skies Thread- free," R'gul snapped testily.

"Oh, stop it, Roland, for Orn's sake," the elf snapped testily.

"If this is some trick on your part to try to keep Haplo alive, it won't work," Xar snapped testily.

"Not from the grave they won't," his king snapped testily.

"You asked that before," Barngate snapped testily.

There was a parping of motor horns, and Beatrice testily snapped.

"That's why she's pounding so hard," the captain snapped testily.

"Don't say that," the purser snapped testily.

"Forest and meadow - it's all the same," the captain snapped testily.

"This is not blind man's hIuff" I snapped testily.