I was.
Before the blue earth rang like a bell,
I was.
I breathed before breath.
I am beneath and above
and through you,
the sound of a soundless gong.
I was, I will be
I am nothing at all.
Nothing. At all.
I am nothing, and the shore on which i break
is all.
~Old Chant. The Rigi
So far in thte book Kat has been living with her mother's people in the mountains. She learned to do what they do and be her own person. 2 years have gone by and she has never once stopped thiking about Nall.
When she is finally a woman in the eyes of her people she tells her aunt she is going back to downshore to see her brother and Nall. Will he still be there? What has become of him and her brother? Has Downshore changed as much as the people says it has? what happend to that horrible man she was going to be forced to marry? all these questions are ringing through her head as she races home, to the sea, to Nall.
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