The Primer didn't speak to her as often as it used to. She had found that 
she could often read the words more quickly than the book spoke them, and so 
she usually ordered it to be silent. She often put it under her pillow and had 
it read her bedtime stories, though, and sometimes she even woke up in the 
middle of the night and heard it whispering things to her that she had just 
been dreaming about.