XI: Ocean
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“My friend, there’s only one thing we can do and that’s keep walking,” Erevia said. “So, get up, please.”
Akshara lay on the ground, clutching her stomach, and breathing erratically. Her heart felt like it was finally going to give up. They had been walking for twenty days without finding another city. Erevia thought maybe there wouldn’t be one until they crossed the southern bridge.
“I’m done,” Akshara said. “I don’t know how Fari’s mother travelled so far with a baby.”
“I’m sure it took her a long time—just like it will take us. Given how small Fari was when her mother arrived in Yaras, I believe she had to have made at least some part of the journey pregnant, which is even more impressive. But also goes against the story she told us as to why she was giving the girl up,
