The TV set that turned on at 10 was muttering quietly.
They were muttering quietly between each other and watching him, though.
Someone else muttered quietly, "One way or the other."
Then she let herself out of the door and walked through the yard, muttering quietly to Ferry, so that he would know who it was.
Most of the Messenger's men shook their heads or quietly muttered denials.
"It happens every year, right after Hallowmas," she quietly muttered.
She muttered quietly to the outside world, damning it for her grief.
"And that's hardly the worst of it," he muttered quietly.
There was tech everywhere, but it only muttered quietly to itself.
It cheeped and muttered quietly, showing no more than a minor surface level.