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Maybe if you spoke to the people Above--

It has to be a pure siren? What does thatso back that has just been said to her

Someone who has saved her voice for years Who has never used her voice for the Council Who loves the Below as much as she loves herself Do I know anyone like that?

I hear her breathing She was thinking of me

I do not

She lied She lied to my aunt, for h

Perhaps you could go up and speak Let thereater good, instead of for all the Council’s little evils

I know you’ve done what you had to do to survive, and so have I

But noe have to do soether

It will take both of us to save the sirens

It will take both of us to save Atlantia

My ht My mother always underestimated ht against one

How can I tell True all of this?

He can see I’m finished He takes his hand away fro a word, he pulls ainstis as steady as the ocean Ito his, andapart around us--water through the rivets in Atlantia, sirens dying on the shore I should feel nu the truth abouthere Above But what I feel right now, in this ht I have to do what Maire said I trust her

"I think it’s tiain," I say "To the shore this tiainst mine He will come with ether like this again True’s lips skim my cheekbone and then he findsto touch the beautiful planes of his face And I aht die here, but we ether

Everyone dies They don’t all have the chance to see what they wanted most At least I’ve seen the Above At least I’ve known True

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