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"Waking tre up to, Luvo?"

"It h to turn in its sleep, as you huan in a distant place It is hard to say"

I could feel the ridge start to drop away from me It was just a sharp peak, not a rise in the land under the ship, and ere sailing away from it "Nooo!" I leaned over the rail "Cole of all those beautiful rocks this soon! I had been so lonely, even with all my old stones and Luvo to keep me company "Stay close! Stop this stupid ship!"

"Evumeimei," Luvo called

"Let e ofaway fro that dreadful noise, I will show you a thing," Luvo said patiently To be honest, I think Luvo has fewa

"What she’s doing is called ‘whining,’ " I heard Rosethorn say "I don’t think you should reward her for it"

"Young mountains are restless and ierous Theyuide her as one And that noise sheEvumeimei, sit on the deck and place your hands on me"

When Luvo speaks to me firmly like that, I do as he says

I felt ghost hands reach through his clear skin and wrap around my wrists He pulled host Luvo host before you are dead In Yanjing, they would say I was cursed forever for being a ghost while I was alive So e

We dropped into the water It ran through ly with salt, wars We zipped through a huge school of fishes, their skins slick and slippery The water got colder as ent down Bright flashes sparked along littered

They are flecks of stone borne by the sea Luvo’s voice sounded in rains, it is light enough to float The sea carries the grains They are so little you could not sense theic I feel them all

More fishes dashed by, blurs in the water I was starting to wonder what they ate, to make them rush so, when I understood It was not the fishes, but Luvo

Is this how you see Rosethorn and Briar and Myrrhtide andaround like someone had turned us into crazy flies? Because we’re meat creatures and you’re stone?

I made an adjustment to see you as you see yourselves It was necessary I shall make one now, Luvo replied