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"I’ll do my best to avoid theo straight to the temple, as fast as I can There are people there ill help me"

"What about the peacekeepers?" Fen asks "And the other citizens of Atlantia? No one has ever come back who chose the Above You don’t knohat they’ll do They ry or afraid when they realize you’ve returned"

"Maybe if they see me," Bay says, "they’ll think of her Of our , too," Fen says

"No," Bay says "You knohat the change in pressure did to your lungs on the way up You can’t risk that again"

"I’ll be fine"

"No," Bay says "You won’t"

So face that has always known the sun before he even set foot on the sands of the Above

True should go back, too

He knows it and I know it

If he goes, he’ll tell the people what he can do Perhaps he’ll find out that there are more like hi our real selves from one another If there could be more people like me, there could be others like True

Would those Below bethem if they knew there were some who could tell when the sirens spoke lies or truth?

And True has always known that he loved the Below He has always known that he belonged there

He and I rode in that gondola together through the fog, but we have always had our own journeys, and I have known that fro I’ve felt it somehow

Perhaps that is why I was so afraid to love him

"It’s the best way for you to help save us," I say

True’s jaw is clenched and I see tears in his eyes

"We h I don’t use my real voice, I know he hears it, as he always has In front of everyone, he lifts o with you," he says to Bay

"What?" Fen asks, surprised

"We have to go now," Ciro says "There isn’t much time before they’ll send the transport down"

Bay looks at me, and for a o, too? We don’t kno long I can last up here And if she and True both go back, then everyone I love will be Below

I see the realization on Bay’s face thecloser, the ti the ether We have been apart, but we are one again now, the sahts, the same purpose

And we both know that I have to stay here