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He says, “Give up. Cooney, “Braiding the Ghosts,” Clockwork Phoenix 3. “You’re no one’s toy or slave—and especially not your family’s. In the afterlife, I will walk again with my father.

”“Miahua?” Dac Kien wasn’t looking at either of them, but rather at the ship outside, the huge bulk that dwarfed them all in its shadow. It had been badly damaged by the fall. The weather had worsened in the meantime, the seas lashing even higher against the rigs’legs, and the horizon was now obscured behind curtains of storming rain, broken only by the flash of lightning. Down through the village it ran, past the houses and research buildings and football pitches, until it came to the lip of the falls and flung itself over.