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Sifting III: Cullet, part i

    Up above, past the lake’s shroud, there were birds, clouds and stars. I looked at the gray blackness above, hunting for something outside the mind-numbing tedium of the lake. My last canteen had drained to a half. We hadn’t encountered any rockwraiths.


    not Hinte???—??even if she wouldn’t accept that. We had argued up and down about it awhile before I tried making my argument with a thrown rock. She retorted with a bigger rock and we did that again before she uncovered another cryst that way.


    I found another stone, one which was my find, with no quibbling from Hinte. I’d preened and wagged my frills at the dark-green wiver. That lasted until she decided we should check again for another.


    are no more stones down there. I don’t see the point.” My voice tended hoarse and small. My throat was about to melt, at this point. Even my saliva tasted coppery.


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    In the distance, the gray-black vog gave way to a grayer, blacker wall of crumbling dustone. Sprawling cliffs sheltered, the Berwem, on three sides. On the last side, there was also a cliff???—??that one opened to a ravine. As far as I knew, through that ravine wound the usual route into the Berwem.


    lake shore, like no particular places as much as a kind of place, well, you’d be right. You couldn’t even tell which edge of the lake this was.


    hungry. I bit into it and ripped out a chunk of meat.


    rude. I liked messing with her, but she had just given me some of her lunch. She didn’t have to do that. So I reigned myself in, aimed at my meal.


    now to give me this?” My fangs unfolded as I said this, but I retracted them.


    thinking.” She looked away. “So I am letting you use the mixture now. Unless you will wait until we leave the lake.” Her tone on the last sentence floundered. It sounded a statement, but it seemed a question.


    Ushra. She wouldn’t make some novice mistake that could ground me or worse.


    so long! Why don’t we collect one more, while we head back?” Hinte didn’t reply, as always???—??she didn’t argue, she just stated her will and let the world march in step.


    inspired in a way that escaped the silly squatness and heavy sprawlingness of cliff-dweller buildings. Feeding little scraps of meat to those pterosaurs, sitting under wind-warped clouds, I could cloud my eyes and imagine the little peak I lay on didn’t connect to the ground.


    alone.


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