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“You shouldn’t have missed breakfast,” Kurt replied

“No one woke me up”

“Believe me, we tried,” Kurt said “Maybe you should have leta real one”

Joe sat back “This is terrible I’ve gone from sleep-deprived to forced starvation What’s next? Chinese water torture?”

Kurt knew Joe’s coh fro with hiain a pound With such a ht whither and fade away after a single day without food

He turned his attention forward “Well, feast your eyes on this,” he said “Aqua-Terra two o’clock low”

Froiant oversize oil platform As they flew closer, it becaenius to Marchetti’s design

Five hundred feet wide and nearly two thousand feet long, Aqua-Terra was truly a sight to behold To begin with, the island itself wasn’t round—like socities envisioned by futuristic architects—it was teardrop-shaped, narrowing to a point in one direction while sporting a wide, curving border on the back end

“A,” Leilani whispered

“Bloody huge,” the pilot said

“I just hope they have a food court down there,” Joe replied

Kurt laughed and glanced toward Leilani “Are you okay?”

She looked pensive and detero into combat She nodded yes but seemed as if she’d rather be so about the island

“See that ring around the outside of the island?” he asked

“Yes,” she said