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I’h the door "Go," Maire says to e, a laugh and a cry and a song

The guards all stare at her Though some of them are supposed to be immune, none of the to Maire She’s singing that lullaby again, but this ti and weep," she says, and I suddenly realize that line could be about the sirens

And then Maire goes silent Caught What did they do to h the back hallways Why did Maire tell ates? She knew she’d be imprisoned this way--did she want it like that? Certainly there were hundreds of places where we could have ht

Why teach et herself locked away so that we have to trust the shell, so that she can only answer the questions I ask?

Does she not entirely trust herself, her own eagerness to have her sister’s daughter as a pupil?

Or is there another reason, one so dark and deep I can’t even begin to fathom it?

My one Neither of them can tell me if that trust turned out to be justified

It is entirely possible that they were both betrayed

As I come back out into the plaza, I lift lass version of the floodgate exit--the teht

Maire took ates to talk about my mother But she also took me there to remind me of what death looks like Bodies laid out on the stone, cold water conize that trying to go through thebay or in the transports isn’t safe She wanted me to see her as my way to the Above

Instead, she has reminded me of another way that I can leave

I can’t leave Atlantia the way my sister did

But I can try to leave the way nificant difference

When I go through the floodgates, I’ll be alive

CHAPTER 8

I wonder how much a tank of air will cost What if it’s five hundred and seven coin, exactly the amount of the money that Maire says Bay left for nal that she wanted me to find a way to follow her to the surface?