AtD translation: read us off your list of complaints

[David Morris]

To "read us off your list of complaints," means to resolve the complaints
by destroying "wrecking," eliminating, the source/cause of the complaints:
revenge justice.

David Morris

On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 11:25 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P481.5   “You do your best,” she cried out at her mother, “to wreck us, and
> then you run away, out of reach, behind the wall of death.”
>        “You want to come out after us, out there beside the old dark river,
> find us, read us off your list of complaints? Somebody sooner or later’ll
> be happy enough to help you do that. Swear, Lake, you’ve gone sour in your
> old age.”
>        Lake woke up, but so slowly it seemed for a while that Mayva was
> really there in the room.
>
> What does "read us off" mean here?
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