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Other tih he was so dehydrated that he couldn’t produce tears even if he wanted to "I don’t knohat you ithso hoarse that the pirates couldn’t hear him anymore
Finally he slid to the bottoe, and passed out And in his unconscious state, he dreamed of his brother, and of a better life
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It was dark and choppy when the pirates unhooked the chain The wind slapped waves against the sides of the little fishing boat, and the current, though not strong enough at this distance to pull the pirate ship into its grasp, was h to control the small vessel The boat succu into it without a struggle as the pirate ship pulled away and grew shter was drowned out by the whistling wind
But Aaron heard none of it He flopped about, shivering on the floor as the tips of waves licked the lip of the boat, and he rolled from side to side as the sea swelled It was only when the rain came in sheets that Aaron roused Perhaps it was instinct as the pure liquid touched his lips Fresh water He forced hi an eyelid, and opened his ue and the back of his throat Sweet relief
As the rain quenched his thirst, the ride grew rougher and rabbed on to the side of the boat and hoisted his battered body to a sitting position against the bench He stayed hunched over so the driving rain didn’t sting his broken face The strengthening hipped his loosening clothing and made his cheeks shudder, and once his rew scared
"Help!" he rasped as a pitchfork of lightning crackled in the sky "Please help! What’s happening?" The boat began to rew and thunder crashed The hipped the rain until the drops flew horizontally They felt like hard pellets hitting Aaron’s face, nailing his eyes and nostrils and eardrurew dizzy with the speed of the watercraft and all the rocking and rolling Soon, it was all he could do in his weak state to hang on And before hispast slices of rock jutting out of the water
As lightning becaerous obstacles peppered the shoreline of a desolate island Waves swelled and rolled, dragging the little boat with them Aaron’s screams were barely audible above the roar of the sea, and the wind sucked the breath from him
Aaron clung for dear life to the side of the boat as it careened crazily toward theone after another, and causing Aaron’s heart to leap The boat went faster and faster, and began to bu Aaron fro asp stuck in his throat He barely had time to close his eyes before the boat’s front end flew up and went airborne over a rock, flinging Aaron to the floor, and then it crashed on another, splintering the little boat into a thousand pieces and sending Aaron flying into the sky When he ca thud, and was still
The next giant wave rolled in and poured over top of hione
In an Icy Land
Meghan Ranger wasn’t the only one who had given her life for Arti another person Artimé was filled with heroes
While Alex and Lani worked diligently around the clock to assist the living in whatever way they could, Meghan never left their , horrible nightmare for all of them--Alex and Lani, Sean, of course, and Sah to hear the horrible news
Everybody mourned in his oay--they’d seen evidence of that when Mr Today died, and were reth and grief into breaking through the layer of ice that covered the land so that they could dig graves for the fallen The final toll was eleven, with h to remain in the hospital ward The Quillitary death count was her, yet no one came to claim the bodies, so the Arti for his sister was loud and quick He was completely inconsolable for a day Not even Carina, who had pushed aside the fight they’d had, could comfort him But after that, he pulled his sadness inward He was alive, and he had work to do Alex needed hi in Quill
Well, almost Charlie actually knew the most, and he did his best to share the information he had, but no one had a moment to listen
When finally Alex could take a break froht out Sean and helped him walk into Ms Octavia’s empty classroom where they could talk in private Simber, Florence, Claire, and Haluki joined the roo
"I’m certain that voice was Gondoleery Rattrapp’s," Sean said The circles were deep and dark under his eyes, and his tone was reserved "She’s one of the new governors, and I fought against her--she’s one of Aaron’s Restorers Or at least she was, until she did this" He pointed out theat the ice-covered world