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Dream.

There is a great sea. The sky is grey, the water green, and the seafoam is the flecked white of milk on the turn. The shore is stone and shingle, and the cliffs are bone-shades. Will you wake on the little fishing boat that rides the waves, wary of great beasts that lurk beneath the surface, or on the cold and stony shore? Or perhaps as some watery thing yourself, breathing in water as cold as ice and with a salt-iron taste like blood?

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[leah-pontarlier.livejournal.com]

It's hard to slow down, I run so quickly, you see. Zann says and before I can ask what she means, she's turning her back and lifting her hair away from her neck. I lean forward and see an odd shaped hole there, with a round top and narrow bottom. I've seen something like it on the boxes Karina keeps on her dresser. Zann is still talking, explaining, I'm not sure what to do about it, but I can't stop, you see? Not without stopping. I suppose someone could wind me up again, but what if it didn't work?

I don't know what to tell her, and so I am glad I have my hair to comb out so I have something to do with my hands while I try to find her an answer. She turns back round at least so I can see her face again.

She grins at my answer about going everywhere but she has a question as well. That's a fine thing to be doing,and very kind of you too, I mean. Who're you going to tell about it all? I smile back and the answer comes to me as easily as the things I said when I first came on board.

"Anyone who wants to know. Knowledge should be shared, unless the sharing would cause someone to get hurt."

The sea heaves under our little boat and I lean over the side to see what caused it, A great shining scaly loop passes through the water under us. I look up towards the shore and see a head rise and rise and rise from the water.

[tereixa-zann.livejournal.com]

"Knowledge should be shared," Leah says, "unless the sharing would cause someone to get hurt."

"I like that," I say. "You have a wonderful sense of how to treat the world, I think, you really do. I--" I cut myself off and catch the edges of the boat, and Leah leans over all unafraid, and I follow the line of her sight to see a great rolling coil of I-can't-even-imagine-what, it's less the girth of it than the length. For a minute I wonder if it's only a wave that hit us as we passed over some undersea ridge, and the cloudy light on the water that makes it look like's it's moving, and then...

Oh, and then.

"Oh my god," I say, eyes and mouth wide as the sea serpent unreels into the sky and around the beach. "Oh my god, that's fantastic! Have you every seen anything like it, have you?" and my hand's on the rudder and I'm steering us sort-of towards it, not too much, because it's just--

There are people in its coils, I think, and I wouldn't want to get caught. I wouldn't want to stop moving. But I have to look.

[leah-pontarlier.livejournal.com]

Zann sounds like she thinks it's a good idea as well, then she stops talking very suddenly and joins me at the edge of the boat. We watch as the largest snake I have ever seen rises into the air and loops vast shining coils of itself around a group of people on the land.

Oh my god, that's fantastic! Have you every seen anything like it, have you? Zann asks me. Her eyes are huge and shining and her mouth is open. The snake is very beautiful shining in the light.

"No, I have not seen this before. Have you?" I can feel the boat moving under us and the snake is getting closer. Oh. It is us that is getting closer to the snake! I keep staring at the snake, my hands gently twisting my hair into a long coil that I can toss over my shoulder or pile onto my head to keep it out of the way.

[tereixa-zann.livejournal.com]

"Never yet," I say, and then "Oh no," because it's sliding along and away through the water like beads running over silk, smooth as oil and bearings. "And maybe not again, I don't know." I can see a woman getting out of the water with the cloudy light gone all bright in her hand...

I have to see that, I must see that. "Come on (http://community.livejournal.com/estdeus_innobis/405311.html?thread=10294591#t10294591)," I say, and the coracle's running in across the waves.