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There were two other women waiting for us in the tree where we came to rest, both of them also winged: Renata and Paudi. Moderation. ”Lucas didn’t know what to say. He’d be hungry and dry mouthed, because the seaweed-derived food never filled his belly and there was never enough drinking water to sate his thirst.

“Of course not. He read off the endless digits, one by one. Water once sheeted down from the lakes to the north, covered the sawgrass prairies less than an inch deep, all the way down to the south. If I left them in some other orientation, they would slowly turn to have their backs up.