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Calliope, the Spider



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    A chance meeting on the shore of Blue Lake interrupts Quirrel making an unfortunate decision.

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    fucking gorgeous. oh my god.

  2. Rec 80

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    Mato learns of the fate that met the one he considered his child.

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  3. Rec 51

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    The first time you die, you don't even realize it's happening.

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  4. Rec 2

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    These days, you both spend most nights working on the translator. Or rather, Hal works on the translator, while you sit around bothering them.

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  5. Rec 63

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    "There's something down there," you say, as afternoon light catches something metallic in the subterranean caves, something unknown flashes like the sun on the scales of the silver fish that swim in the river outside the crater.

    "Gabbro says that before Slate made the big rockets, they used the geysers to help launch the first ships. We were too little to remember. Lots of the first ships didn't make it. The water came up and just blew them apart."

    "Gabbro says a lot of things. Gabbro says there are trees that move around when you're not looking at them."

    "Gabbro's going to be a real astronaut soon," Hal says, and you can feel their forehead wrinkle in doubt. Gabbro is the best at stories, but they're also the best at tricks and pranks, so it's a tough call which of you is more right.

    You both fall into thoughtful silence, and if you squint against the dark and the deep you can kind of identify the silver something as a fuel canister, or maybe a tin of salted fish. But that might just as well be regular old garbage from when the grown ups stay up too late and drink too much, and not the remains of a broken rocket that couldn't make it into space.

    It's a thought worth thinking about, though.

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