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The water will protect you, Anthony

He started Who was speaking to him? The voice seemed to come fro at his feet, the metal of the ship It enfolded him like a blanket of perfect softness

He cannot find you here Abide here in safety, and she will come to you

That hen he felt her: Areat sob racked his body His loneliness was leaving him It lifted from his spirit like a veil, and what lay behind it was a sorrow of a different kind--a beautiful, holy kind of sorrow for the world and all its woes He was holding the wheel Slowly it turned under his hands Outside, beyond the walls of the ship, the as howling again The rain lashed, the sky rolled, the seas tore through the streets of the drowned city

Coh His body was in the ship, the Chevron Mariner, but Carter was in that place no , and when the falling stopped he knew just where he was, even before he opened his eyes, because he could smell the flowers

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Carter realized he’d finished his tea A up the beds Carter thought to tell her to rest a spell, he’d get to the weeds directly, but he knew that she’d refuse; when there ork to do, she did it

The waiting was hard for her Not just because of the things she’d have to face, but for what she’d given up She never said a word about it, that wasn’t Amy’s way, but Carter could tell He knehat it was like to love a person and lose the That was a fact Carter knew that man, kneouldn’t rest until the whole world was awas, Carter couldn’t help but feel a little sorry for him Carter had been in that station hi, it was his way of asking it

Carter got up from his chair, put on his hat, and went to where Aood nap?" she asked, looking up

"Was I sleeping?"

She tossed a weed onto the pile "You should have heard yourself snoring"