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Bay flinches slightly at the sound of ly it sounds?

"It’s not that," she whispers to ine you speaking, you’re always using your real voice"

"The sirens all came up," I say to Bay, "and the people Above killed the my arm so hard that it hurts "No Are you sure?"

"I saw it happen," I say "So did True" At that moment I realize that I haven’t introduced True and Bay to each other, but before I can say anything else, so one of the sober brown robes, the same man who said Bay’s naed man, unreray hair And he’s followed by Fen, the boy from the Below Fen looks terrible--his eyes wild and tired, his hair aI take a step back in alarious" He claps a mask over his face and breathes deeply And then his eyes widen "True," he says

True grins, and the two of theain

Bay glances over at Fen but then looks back atthe sirens?"

Should I talk about this in front of Fen and the priest? Can they be trusted? Bay seems to think that they can

"The people in the boats killed the sirens" It sounds stupid, and I shake my head in frustration So ether on the transport And e arrived, people aiting for us in boats They never ca the sirens True and I were the only ones who escaped, as far as I know Maire helped us"

"Where is she?" Bay asked

I can’t answer

"They killed Maire?" Bay asks, stunned, as if such a thing could never be true I understand her It seems impossible that Maire could have survived, but it also seems impossible that she could die

"I think so," I tell Bay "I didn’t see"

"So you left the to say

"You left us," I say to him To Bay

You left us

"I’m sorry, Rio," Bay says "We did I did I left" Her voice breaks

Bay knows the question I’h I know the reason from the letter, I want to hear Bay tell ernails and short-cut hair and a patch of skin peeling on her nose, who has been living the life I intended forout her tiht it was the best way to keep you safe," Bay says There are tears in her eyes "I oing to kill the sirens and cut off Atlantia Our mother didn’t tell o back to the island and see if there is anyone left to save," says the priest He ht It’s oxidized to a green color, not shiny like the one nia is sie on the pulpit here in the te into clouds