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But there is no doubt that the sirens saved us

The voice stops

What if the children who didn’t harden their hearts were the first miracle?

Then we have already had all three, and the people are waiting for so that will never come

"How do you know this?" I ask Maire "Where did you find that voice?"

I heard it in the walls one day, Maire says I think a siren saved it there long ago, asked the walls to hold so so we could know the truth later I think that in the past there were many sirens with that ability But I don’t know anyone else who can do it now

"How did you hear it?"

I was listening

"Why?"

Because that is another important part of a siren’s power, Maire says Most of the sirens now do not understand that part at all But you do

"Am I the last siren?"

You are the last one that I know of, Maire says But I do not know everything

"Do you think there arethat I have to ask for every piece of information, that she can’t volunteer more than I request Maire did this so that I would trust her and it’s helping, but I also wonder what she would say if she hadn’telse Maire set the rules and spoke them So does this mean she can control herself? If I make a promise, in my real voice, will I be unable to break it, notoo far ahead, I tell myself You can do this You can earn et pressurized air?" I ask

Silence I can iet out on your own, Rio The h those doors in the ocean rooain "Where can I get a tank full of pressurized air?"

And it must be that she can’t break the rules she set, because the words sound almost torn from her Ennio in the deepmarket, she says

"Is he a crook?" I ask

When he sells air, it is good It’s not his fault everyone dies

Ennio I knew it

"How could someone convince hi to use her real voice?"

And again she has to answer

I think

I’m almost sure

But I’m never completely sure, when it comes to Maire

Tell Ennio, Maire says, that he owesit in on your behalf