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52.1 | Cueball | Later.
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52.2 | Megan | Bye.
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170.1 | Megan | Wanna swim?
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170.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
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175.1 | Megan | Pffthh cough
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175.2 | Cueball | You ok?
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175.3 | Megan | Just got some in my mouth.
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320.1 | Megan | Any idea where the river is now?
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320.2 | Cueball | Still pretty far out. It actually retreated a little this week.
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408.1 | Megan | I don't understand what the sea is doing.
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414.1 | Cueball | I don't think we can build it much taller than this.
It's been fun, though!
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486.1 | Cueball | Sip
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487.1 | Cueball | Pfffth
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488.1 | Cueball | Pthuh! Yuck
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490.1 | Cueball | I've had worse.
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531.1 | Cueball | Guess one of us should climb down.
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531.2 | Megan | Yeah.
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537.1 | Megan | The sea is rising.
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538.1 | Cueball | Yeah.
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562.1 | Cueball | Sea level rises and falls, right? It's changed before.
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562.2 | Megan | Not this fast.
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563.1 | Cueball | The river hasn't even reached the sea yet.
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563.2 | Megan | The river is small.
The sea is big.
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564.1 | Cueball | How big?
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564.2 | Megan | I don't know.
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637.1 | Megan | Does it rain on the sea?
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637.2 | Cueball | I don't know.
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638.1 | Cueball | If it does, it seems like a waste.
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640.1 | Cueball | It rains in the hills where the river comes from, right?
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640.2 | Megan | Sure.
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641.1 | Cueball | Are there other rivers?
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642.1 | Megan | I don't know.
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659.1 | Cueball | There must be other rivers.
Otherwise the sea would dry up.
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660.1 | Megan | Maybe it's coming out of the ground.
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660.2 | Cueball | Does that happen?
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660.3 | Megan | I don't know.
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661.1 | Megan | I don't know how the sea works
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661.2 | Cueball | I don't know how anything works.
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832.1 | Megan | I don't think it's going to stop.
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833.1 | Cueball | The sea just can't make more of itself forever.
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833.2 | Megan | It can do whatever it wants.
It's the sea.
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834.1 | Cueball | There must be a reason.
There's a reason for everything.
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834.2 | Megan | Yeah.
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835.1 | Megan | But it's not always a good reason.
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838.1 | Cueball | There must be other rivers.
Maybe something is wrong with them.
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855.1 | Megan | I like our castle.
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856.1 | Cueball | I think it's going to go away.
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857.1 | Megan | Yeah.
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859.1 | Megan | Do you think there are other rivers?
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859.2 | Cueball | Something is adding water to the sea.
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860.1 | Megan | Does it have to be water?
Maybe something is adding more land somewhere.
And it's making the sea overflow.
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861.1 | Cueball | Or maybe it's just raining somewhere.
We have no idea what's out there.
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862.1 | Megan | Yeah.
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864.1 | Megan | Want to find out?
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864.2 | Cueball | Yes.
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865.1 | Megan | I'll get some bags.
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881.1 | Megan | bye.
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985.1 | Cueball | Have you ever been this far?
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985.2 | Megan | Not this way.
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1004.1 | Megan | Maybe the sea doesn't end.
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1005.1 | Cueball | We haven't walked very far.
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1006.1 | Megan | Yeah.
But that's what the first part of not ending looks like.
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1018.1 | Megan | If we don't find something today, we'll have to start using the steam bottle.
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1018.2 | Cueball | Ugh.
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1024.1 | Megan | Yes.
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1024.2 | Cueball | Yes what?
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1025.1 | Megan | There are other rivers.
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1041.1 | Cueball | The river isn't moving that fast. Maybe I could —
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1041.2 | Megan | Too dangerous.
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1041.3 | Cueball | Yeah.
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1042.1 | Megan | It's ok.
It was an accident.
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1044.1 | Megan | You're right, though.
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1044.2 | Cueball | About what?
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1045.1 | Megan | The river's not moving very fast.
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1049.1 | Megan | It can't be flowing much faster than we walk.
Even if it's as deep as it is wide, I don't think it's enough water.
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1050.1 | Cueball | Yeah.
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1052.1 | Cueball | And this river doesn't look broken.
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1052.2 | Megan | Yeah.
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1053.1 | Cueball | It's pretty neat, though.
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1053.2 | Megan | Yeah.
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1058.1 | Cueball | Sorry.
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1058.2 | Megan | No, right. Forgot.
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1066.1 | Megan | It's still rising.
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1067.1 | Cueball | It's strange.
Rivers flow to meet the sea.
Maybe the sea couldn't wait.
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1069.1 | Megan | Walk upriver to find a ford,
or turn back?
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1071.1 | Cueball | We can't go back.
We don't understand everything yet.
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1072.1 | Megan | "Everything" is a little ambitious.
We barely understand anything.
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1072.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
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1073.1 | Cueball | But that's what the first part of understanding everything looks like.
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1093.1 | Cueball | If nothing else, I'm glad we found this river.
It's not much farther from home than ours is at its driest.
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1096.1 | Megan | Oh.
The river is even bigger than it looked.
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1123.1 | Megan | Maybe it is big enough to fill the sea.
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1130.1 | Cueball | Our rope isn't strong enough.
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1131.1 | Megan | What?
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1131.2 | Cueball | Hold this or you'll fall.
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1142.1 | Cueball | When our river gets too big, it fills with stuff.
Wood and leaves and things from people in the hills.
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1143.1 | Cueball | This river doesn't look like that.
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1144.1 | Megan | Maybe it only flows through empty places.
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1146.1 | Megan | If this river isn't what's making the sea rise, we need to get past it.
Either way, we continue upriver.
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1159.1 | Megan | I wonder how high the water is now.
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1160.1 | Cueball | I wonder if other people have noticed. It's been days.
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1160.2 | Megan | Not a lot of us by the shore this time of year.
A few kids, maybe.
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|
1161.1 | Megan | It'd have to rise a lot higher before any tents got wet.
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1178.1 | Cueball | This river flows from bigger hills than ours.
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1179.1 | Megan | If we don't reach a crossing soon, we'll be in them.
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1184.1 | Megan | I wonder if it's possible to swim in.
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1212.1 | Megan | You ok?
|
|
1213.1 | Cueball | Just thinking.
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1218.1 | Megan | Should we follow the river through there?
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|
1218.2 | Cueball | Hmm.
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|
1219.1 | Cueball | Let's see if we can go over those and rejoin it further up.
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|
1233.1 | Megan | It must get windier up here.
|
|
1261.1 | Cueball | Oof.
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|
1261.2 | Megan | These are bigger than they looked.
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|
1339.1 | Megan | Neat.
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|
1341.1 | Megan | (Yawn)
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|
1343.1 | Megan | The river isn't much farther...
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|
1378.1 | Cueball | Berries?
|
|
1378.2 | Megan | Ooh, thanks!
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|
1380.1 | Cueball | There are people here.
Or were.
I found some sort of campsite.
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|
1381.1 | Megan | Recent?
|
|
1381.2 | Cueball | Looked like it'd been empty for a while.
|
|
1383.1 | Megan | I'm thirsty.
Let's get to the river.
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|
1383.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
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|
1386.1 | Megan | They leave anything good behind?
|
|
1386.2 | Cueball | Just some wood.
Not enough to build a raft.
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1407.1 | Cueball | This place is beautiful.
|
|
1407.2 | Megan | Yeah.
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|
1408.1 | Megan | I'm surprised we haven't been seen by any people yet.
|
|
1409.1 | Megan | If it's this empty, we should live here.
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|
1412.1 | Cueball | Do you notice the sea tasting better?
|
|
1412.2 | Megan | ...No?
|
|
1413.1 | Megan | I don't know.
I try not to taste seawater.
Why?
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|
1414.1 | Cueball | I was thinking.
If a river is putting too much water into the sea,
the sea should get fresher.
|
|
1415.1 | Cueball | I tasted the water back before we left.
|
|
1415.2 | Megan | Ugh. And?
|
|
1415.3 | Cueball | I thought it was a little fresher, but maybe it was just me.
|
|
1416.1 | Megan | Probably.
I mean, how high was the sea then?
The extra water couldn't have been more than a tiny part of it.
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|
1417.1 | Cueball | Yeah.
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|
1419.1 | Cueball | Well we may as well continue. Either we'll figure out the sea,
or we'll keep finding beautiful places.
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|
1420.1 | Megan | That sounds fun.
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|
1436.1 | Cueball | Are you ok?
|
|
1437.1 | Megan | I found a -
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|
1438.1 | Frog | Ribbit.
|
|
1476.1 | Megan | Is this like the one you found?
|
|
1476.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
|
|
1495.1 | Megan | Oof.
|
|
1497.1 | Megan | Ok.
|
|
1502.1 | Megan | Wow.
|
|
1513.1 | Cueball | There are markings on the trunk.
|
|
1513.2 | Megan | Oh.
Yeah.
|
|
1514.1 | Megan | I wonder what they mean.
|
|
1525.1 | Megan | I wonder if it's supposed to be like that.
|
|
1526.1 | Cueball | It's a pretty big tree.
It probably knows what it's doing.
|
|
1557.1 | Cueball | Do you think it's ok to take some?
|
|
1558.1 | Megan | Yeah.
It doesn't look like anyone's been here for a while.
|
|
1589.1 | Cueball | This looks like the stuff that floats down our river.
|
|
1590.1 | Cueball | I wonder if these people are related to the people in the hills.
|
|
1590.2 | Megan | Maybe.
|
|
1592.1 | Megan | But the markings on that tree didn't look familiar.
|
|
1592.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
|
|
1594.1 | Megan | We could cross the river now.
We found more than enough wood for a raft.
|
|
1595.1 | Cueball | Yeah.
|
|
1598.1 | Cueball | We're almost in the mountains.
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|
1600.1 | Cueball | We walked along the sea for days and we didn't learn anything.
Up here we're learning lots.
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|
1601.1 | Megan | We haven't learned why the sea rose.
|
|
1601.2 | Cueball | But maybe we were never going to.
|
|
1602.1 | Cueball | There's food and water here.
I don't want to go all the way back down, walk along the sea for a few more days, then have to turn around.
|
|
1603.1 | Cueball | Maybe the sea is too big to understand.
We can't answer every question.
|
|
1604.1 | Megan | No,
But I think we can answer any question.
|
|
1605.1 | Megan | Still, I agree.
No need to turn around yet.
|
|
1605.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
|
|
1606.1 | Megan | And those mountains do look neat.
|
|
1606.2 | Cueball | Yeah!
|
|
1608.1 | Megan | Before we go, we should stock up.
|
|
1608.2 | Cueball | I'll get more water.
|
|
1617.1 | Megan | Hi!
|
|
1622.1 | Megan | It's ok!
I won't eat you.
|
|
1625.1 | Megan | Want some food?
|
|
1669.1 | Cueball | I wonder where the people who take care of these plants are.
|
|
1687.1 | Megan | What are you doing?
|
|
1688.1 | Cueball | Making shapes with my shadow!
|
|
1689.1 | Megan | When I stare down at mine for long enough while I walk, it starts to look really weird.
|
|
1689.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
|
|
1692.1 | Megan | Still it's better than when we were following the sea,
walking straight into the sun all morning.
|
|
1692.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
|
|
1713.1 | Cueball | It's prettier right by the river, but it's easier to walk up here.
|
|
1713.2 | Megan | Yeah.
|
|
1714.1 | Megan | Well, it all gets greener further up.
|
|
1718.1 | Cueball | The mountains are farther away than they looked.
|
|
1739.1 | Cueball | Snake!
|
|
1742.1 | Megan | Are you ok?
|
|
1743.1 | Cueball | I think so -
|
|
1744.1 | Megan | Did it bite you?
|
|
1744.2 | Cueball | No.
|
|
1745.1 | Megan | Could you see what kind it was?
|
|
1746.1 | Cueball | Brown and shiny.
Kind of blotchy.
|
|
1747.1 | Megan | Did it have little spikes over it's eyes?
|
|
1747.2 | Cueball | No, not one of those.
|
|
1748.1 | Cueball | It was weird.
Stubby at both ends.
Like it forgot to have a head and tail
|
|
1749.1 | Megan | Hmm...
|
|
1750.1 | Megan | No idea.
But let's go around and watch your feet.
|
|
1751.1 | Cueball | OK.
|
|
1758.1 | Megan | No snakes.
|
|
1795.1 | Megan | I think I can almost see the sea from here.
|
|
1797.1 | Cueball | I don't know.
It's hard to tell what's land and what's sky.
|
|
1797.2 | Megan | Yeah.
|
|
1821.1 | Megan | It's cooler up here.
|
|
1826.1 | Cueball | Are you hearing quiet chirps?
|
|
1828.1 | Megan | No.
|
|
1828.2 | Cueball | I don't hear it now either.
|
|
1830.1 | Megan | I heard chirps from the night sky once.
|
|
1831.1 | Megan | I was looking at the stars one night and I heard peeping.
It was very quiet.
Just a single chirp now and then.
|
|
1831.2 | Cueball | Did you see anything?
|
|
1832.1 | Megan | I thought I saw a few stars flicker.
Nothing else.
|
|
1832.2 | Cueball | Hmm.
|
|
1837.1 | (Unseen) | Chirp
|
|
1838.1 | (Unseen) | Chirp
|
|
1839.1 | Cueball | It's coming from up ahead.
|
|
1840.1 | (Unseen) | Chirp
|
|
1844.1 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
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|
1845.1 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1847.1 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1848.1 | Megan | Chirp
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|
1848.2 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
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|
1849.1 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1850.1 | Megan | Chirp
|
|
1852.1 | Megan | Why is it doing that?
|
|
1852.2 | Cueball | I don't know.
|
|
1852.3 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1853.1 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1854.1 | Megan | I guess it's angry that we're here.
|
|
1855.1 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1857.1 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
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|
1859.1 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1860.1 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1862.1 | Megan | What's it doing?
|
|
1862.2 | Cueball | I think it gave it something.
|
|
1863.1 | Megan | Oh! Food!
I bet the loud one is a baby.
|
|
1863.2 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1864.1 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1864.2 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
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|
1865.1 | Megan | Now they're both loud.
|
|
1865.2 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1865.3 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
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|
1866.1 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1867.1 | Megan | It's OK!
We're not going to eat your baby.
|
|
1867.2 | Cueball | I don't think it believes you.
|
|
1867.3 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1867.4 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1868.1 | Megan | That's OK. It's just protecting its baby.
|
|
1868.2 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1869.1 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
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|
1870.1 | Megan | Hey--
I think I see water up ahead.
|
|
1870.2 | Baby Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1870.3 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
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|
1871.1 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1873.1 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1874.1 | Cueball | Don't worry!
|
|
1874.2 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
|
|
1874.3 | Cueball | You're doing a good job.
|
|
1876.1 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
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|
1877.1 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
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1878.1 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp
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|
1885.1 | Megan | Hi!
|
|
1888.1 | Megan | I found a tiny river.
|
|
1890.1 | Megan | You OK?
|
|
1890.2 | Cueball | Yup!
|
|
1917.1 | Megan | Facebug!
|
|
1918.1 | Cueball | Mrrr gblghx
|
|
1926.1 | Megan | Hey!
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|
1927.1 | Megan | Come see what I found!
|
|
1928.1 | Megan | This river is flowing towards the big one, so I followed it to see if they're connected.
|
|
1932.1 | Cueball | Wow.
|
|
1938.1 | Cueball | I guess the land goes up, but the river stays at the same level.
|
|
1939.1 | Megan | The river has been going up, too.
But not as fast as the land.
|
|
1941.1 | Megan | Can water really wear away rock like this?
|
|
1942.1 | Cueball | I guess it can.
|
|
1944.1 | Megan | I can't imagine how long it must have taken.
|
|
1945.1 | Cueball | Yeah...
|
|
1950.1 | Cueball | A lot of these rocks are pretty crumbly.
|
|
1951.1 | Cueball | Even down there, between all the big rocks, the cliff walls look sandy.
Water eats away sand pretty fast.
|
|
1953.1 | Megan | Yeah.
|
|
1957.1 | Megan | I wonder how deep it gets.
|
|
1958.1 | Cueball | Maybe it goes right through the mountain,
and it's as deep as the mountain is tall.
|
|
1959.1 | Megan | It could be even deeper.
We don't know how far down the water goes.
|
|
1960.1 | Cueball | Hmm.
|
|
1961.1 | Cueball | I guess it can't be much deeper than the surface of the sea.
If it were, it wouldn't flow fast and cut into the ground.
|
|
1961.2 | Megan | Oh. Yeah.
|
|
1962.1 | Megan | But then, a river couldn't cut all the way through a mountain either.
Because how would it get started?
|
|
1964.1 | Megan | I wonder what the top of a mountain is like?
|
|
1966.1 | Cueball | Let's find out.
|
|
2023.1 | Cueball | It seems we've reached our journey's end.
|
|
2024.1 | Megan | Want to find an easier spot?
|
|
2024.2 | Cueball | No, I can do it.
Let me help you up first.
|
|
2034.1 | Cueball | Oh!
|
|
2045.1 | Megan | Careful!
|
|
2045.2 | Cueball | It's OK.
|
|
2048.1 | Megan | Does it hurt?
|
|
2048.2 | Cueball | It's a little prickly.
|
|
2049.1 | Megan | Careful, it might bite.
|
|
2049.2 | Cueball | Have you seen one before?
|
|
2049.3 | Megan | Never this close.
|
|
2050.1 | Megan | It's really neat.
|
|
2050.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
|
|
2051.1 | Cueball | Okay, we'll stop bothering you.
|
|
2074.1 | Plant | Bop
|
|
2097.1 | Cueball | You OK?
|
|
2098.1 | Megan | Yup!
|
|
2100.1 | Cueball | Maybe it's time to turn around.
|
|
2101.1 | Cueball | The world is too big.
It can go on longer than we can.
|
|
2102.1 | Megan | I'm still going.
|
|
2103.1 | Cueball | But one day we won't be.
And we're a long way from home.
|
|
2105.1 | Cueball | Earlier, I thought you wanted to turn around and go back to the sea.
|
|
2106.1 | Megan | I don't want to go back to it. I want to understand it.
|
|
2108.1 | Cueball | By climbing?
The sea is down, not up.
|
|
2114.1 | Megan | These bugs have such beautiful wings.
|
|
2115.1 | Megan | You could spend a thousand lifetimes staring at water and sand,
thinking as hard as you could,
and you'd never guess the world had things like this in it.
|
|
2118.1 | Megan | I wanna see the top.
|
|
2119.1 | Cueball | What do you think we'll find?
|
|
2119.2 | Megan | More world. Maybe different.
|
|
2166.1 | Megan | Weird.
|
|
2171.1 | Megan | Pfffthh
|
|
2182.1 | Megan | Oh!
|
|
2202.1 | Megan | Hello?
|
|
2205.1 | Cueball | See anything?
|
|
2206.1 | Megan | Just some old furniture.
Shelves
a broken bowl.
|
|
2215.1 | Megan | Oh, hey -
|
|
2216.1 | Megan | There's a stream back here.
|
|
2217.1 | Megan | And it almost looks like there's something on top of the mountain.
|
|
2218.1 | Cueball | Hmm...
Could be.
|
|
2221.1 | Cueball | I think whoever lived here liked building castles, too.
|
|
2224.1 | Cueball | Here.
|
|
2225.1 | Megan | Oh!
You brought a flag?
|
|
2225.2 | Cueball | Yeah, I -
|
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2226.1 | Cueball | -- LOOK OUT!
|
|
2231.1 | Megan | Hey!
Hey!
Over here!
|
|
2232.1 | Stick | Thwap!
|
|
2232.2 | Lucky | Snarl
|
|
2233.1 | Lucky | Hiss
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2237.1 | Megan | Are you OK?
|
|
2237.2 | Cueball | I, um...
I think so?
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|
2238.1 | Megan | It didn't bite you?
|
|
2238.2 | Cueball | It had claws. I saw them.
|
|
2238.3 | Megan | But you're not bleeding?
|
|
2239.1 | Cueball | No?
|
|
2240.1 | Cueball | I think it grabbed my bag by mistake.
|
|
2241.1 | Megan | That was lucky.
|
|
2241.2 | Cueball | I was lucky that...
...you chased it away. Did you hit it?
I couldn't really see.
|
|
2242.1 | Megan | Yeah.
|
|
2243.1 | Cueball | That was brave.
|
|
2244.1 | Megan | You grabbed me.
If you hadn't pulled me down and -
|
|
2244.2 | Cueball | Are you OK?
|
|
2245.1 | Megan | Yeah, I'm fine.
|
|
2246.1 | Cueball | No, you're not.
|
|
2247.1 | Megan | What?
|
|
2247.2 | Cueball | You hurt your leg.
|
|
2248.1 | Megan | No, I just banged it on something when -
|
|
2248.2 | Cueball | You're bleeding.
|
|
2249.1 | Megan | What? No, I - Oh.
|
|
2250.1 | Megan | Claw marks.
I didn't see it hit me.
|
|
2250.2 | Cueball | It moved fast.
|
|
2252.1 | Cueball | Where is it...
I thought I had...
|
|
2253.1 | Megan | This is a surprising amount of blood.
|
|
2254.1 | Cueball | Keep your hand tight over where it's coming out.
I'm looking for something to wrap around it.
|
|
2255.1 | Cueball | I can just tear the bag.
It's torn already. Or -
|
|
2255.2 | Megan | Oh, wait.
|
|
2266.1 | Megan | Sorry for ruining your flag.
|
|
2267.1 | Cueball | It's OK.
After all, I brought it for you.
|
|
2268.1 | Megan | Thank you.
|
|
2270.1 | Megan | I like it so much I'm coloring it a beautiful red.
|
|
2283.1 | Megan | It's going to be a long walk home.
|
|
2284.1 | Cueball | Can you even walk?
How are you feeling?
|
|
2285.1 | Megan | Thirsty.
|
|
2290.1 | Cueball | Does it hurt?
|
|
2291.1 | Megan | It didn't at first.
Now it does.
|
|
2296.1 | Cueball | I think you're right.
There's some kind of structure on the mountain.
|
|
2300.1 | Megan | I think I can walk OK.
|
|
2301.1 | Megan | It hurts, but it doesn't really hurt more when I lean on it.
|
|
2301.2 | Cueball | That's good, at least.
|
|
2302.1 | Cueball | But it's a pretty bad cut.
It could get a lot worse in the time it takes to walk home.
|
|
2303.1 | Cueball | We need help.
|
|
2304.1 | Megan | Do you think we should keep going up?
|
|
2305.1 | Cueball | We can't be more than a day or so from the top.
There may be people there.
|
|
2306.1 | Megan | Like the people in the hills?
|
|
2306.2 | Cueball | We're a long way from there.
|
|
2307.1 | Cueball | We don't know what's past the mountains. If we go up a little more, we'll be able to see. There could be villages.
|
|
2308.1 | Megan | And if there's no one there, we won't be much farther from home than we are now.
|
|
2308.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
|
|
2309.1 | Megan | OK.
|
|
2310.1 | Cueball | I'll carry everything in your bag.
Mine's torn anyway.
|
|
2313.1 | Cueball | You tell me if your leg starts hurting too much.
|
|
2313.2 | Megan | OK.
|
|
2325.1 | Cueball | I'll step in and help you over.
|
|
2328.1 | Megan | Ow.
|
|
2344.1 | Megan | It's definitely colder up here.
|
|
2354.1 | Cueball | How are you feeling?
|
|
2354.2 | Megan | Not great.
|
|
2355.1 | Megan | That thing is still out there. Probably others, too.
|
|
2355.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
|
|
2373.1 | Megan | We need to sleep.
|
|
2373.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
|
|
2374.1 | Megan | It didn't seem scary before.
Pausing to sleep wherever we were.
|
|
2376.1 | Cueball | I'll stay awake while you rest.
|
|
2376.2 | Megan | I can stay awake.
|
|
2377.1 | Cueball | No, you need to rest.
I'll wake you if I get tired.
|
|
2379.1 | Megan | Or if something is trying to eat you,
and you need me to hit it.
|
|
2454.1 | Cueball | Hey.
|
|
2455.1 | Cueball | Wake up.
|
|
2455.2 | Megan | Yeah?
|
|
2456.1 | Cueball | I stayed awake as long as I could.
Can you take over?
|
|
2456.2 | Megan | Oh, sure.
|
|
2459.1 | Megan | All quiet?
|
|
2460.1 | Cueball | Yeah. How are you feeling?
|
|
2460.2 | Megan | Still hurts.
|
|
2461.1 | Megan | But I got some rest. Your turn now.
|
|
2466.1 | Sky | Chirp
|
|
2470.1 | Sky | Chirp
|
|
2471.1 | Megan | Do you hear that?
|
|
2472.1 | Sky | Chirp
|
|
2472.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
|
|
2473.1 | Cueball | I wonder what they're doing.
|
|
2531.1 | Cueball | I'm awake.
|
|
2531.2 | Megan | FINALLY!
|
|
2532.1 | Cueball | Did I sleep too long?
|
|
2532.2 | Megan | Not long enough, really.
But it's getting late.
And I was bored.
|
|
2533.1 | Cueball | How's your leg?
|
|
2535.1 | Megan | Looks ok.
|
|
2536.1 | Cueball | It does?
|
|
2536.2 | Megan | Sure.
|
|
2540.1 | Megan | Ok.
We get to the top.
We look for people.
|
|
2541.1 | Megan | If we don't see any,
we start back home.
|
|
2542.1 | Cueball | Sounds good.
|
|
2553.1 | Megan | Neat.
|
|
2554.1 | Cueball | I wonder what it's for.
|
|
2558.1 | Cueball | Careful
|
|
2561.1 | Cueball | Huh.
|
|
2579.1 | Cueball | I guess the mountains don't go back down the other side.
|
|
2586.1 | Megan | I see people.
|
|
2587.1 | Cueball | Where!?
|
|
2587.2 | Megan | Over there.
|
|
2588.1 | Megan | It's far away.
But do you see the dust?
|
|
2589.1 | Cueball | Yeah...
|
|
2589.2 | Megan | And I saw flashes of light.
Something glinting.
|
|
2591.1 | Megan | It's not far.
We can reach them tonight.
|
|
2592.1 | Cueball | Good!
Is walking still not to painful?
|
|
2593.1 | Megan | Walking is ok.
Climbing hurt.
|
|
2594.1 | Cueball | You could have asked me to climb up here for you.
|
|
2594.2 | Megan | But I wanted to see.
|
|
2595.1 | Megan | Have you figured out what that thing is?
|
|
2596.1 | Cueball | It looks like it's supposed to hold something.
|
|
2597.1 | Cueball | You can point it at things.
Maybe it's a weapon.
|
|
2598.1 | Megan | Maybe.
|
|
2599.1 | Megan | But why would there be a weapon way up here?
What's it aimed at?
|
|
2600.1 | Cueball | Right now you're pointing it at our home.
Haven't you launched enough things at our castle?
|
|
2600.2 | Megan | No.
|
|
2613.1 | Megan | Our poor castle.
I wonder what's left of it.
|
|
2628.1 | Cueball | I think that's another tower.
|
|
2629.1 | Megan | I think so, too.
|
|
2632.1 | Megan | Are you ok?
|
|
2633.1 | Cueball | Yeah.
I just need to rest for a moment.
|
|
2634.1 | Cueball | I don't know why I'm so out of breath.
|
|
2634.2 | Megan | I'm feeling it too.
|
|
2636.1 | Cueball | I wonder if the air up here is different.
|
|
2637.1 | Megan | Could be.
It's definitely cooler.
|
|
2646.1 | Cueball | I can see someone on that hill!
|
|
2647.1 | Megan | Oh, yeah!
HEY! HELLOOO!!
|
|
2648.1 | Cueball | Still too far to hear.
|
|
2650.1 | Megan | HEY!
|
|
2652.1 | Megan | Well, they've seen us.
|
|
2657.1 | Megan | Hi.
We're from far away, and my leg is hurt.
Can you help us?
|
|
2658.1 | Beanie-1 | ᔪᙐᖚᐧ ᘛᔭᐤ (dZL' Ub?)
From where [[are you]]?
|
|
2659.1 | Beanie-2 | ᔪᘝᓄᐧ ᔪ, ᒣᖉ ᖊᐣᖽ ᖽᘛᕋᑦᐤ (dA'J
d, 7X W`N NUq"?) Did you travel here alone?
|
|
2660.1 | Cueball | Huh.
|
|
2660.2 | Megan | Ok.
Umm.
|
|
2663.1 | Beanie-2 | ᓭᘈ ᘊᒣᓭᐧᖊᔑ ᘝᘊᓭᒣᖊᐣᖗᐨ (4M
374'WS A347W`9.) Get [yarrow] paste. (or onion, or another edible
plant useful for first aid and available in a Mediterranean climate;
statement implies that some is in the nearby camp or growing wild
nearby)
|
|
2666.1 | Beanie-2 | ᙐᖚᐧ ᘊᘖᑫᘖᒣᐣᖚ ᘛ ᓭᑦᐧ ᙐᖚᑫᕋ,ᐨ
(ZL' 32g27`L U 4"' ZLgq,.) From an animal [[attack]], maybe
yesterday.
|
|
2669.1 | Cueball | They seem to know what they're doing.
|
|
2669.2 | Megan | Yeah.
I wonder what that is.
|
|
2670.1 | Megan | That.
What is that?
|
|
2671.1 | Beanie-2 | ᘊᒣᓭᐧᖊᔑ ᘝᘊᓭᒣᖊᐣᖗᐨ (374'WS A347W`9.) [yarrow] paste.
|
|
2672.1 | Cueball | It's some kind of paste.
Does it hurt?
|
|
2672.2 | Megan | Not - ow - not really.
|
|
2675.1 | Megan | Um,
thank you.
|
|
2685.1 | Megan | It's just water.
|
|
2686.1 | Cueball | Yawn.
|
|
2687.1 | Cueball | How do we talk to them?
We can figure this out.
|
|
2688.1 | Megan | We're from down there.
The sea.
We're from the...
|
|
2689.1 | Megan | Yawn.
|
|
2690.1 | Megan | ...We're from the sea.
We're from the sea and we have to sleep.
|
|
2692.1 | Beanie-1 | ᖚᑫᘖ ᓭᐧᖚ (Lg2 4'L) Rest here.
|
|
2701.1 | Beanie-1 | ᓭᘖᔭᓄᐨ (42bJ.) Water.
|
|
2703.1 | Cueball | ᓭᘖᔭᓄᐨ (42bJ.) Water.
|
|
2703.2 | Beanie-1 | ᖉᑦ,ᐦ / ᓭᘖᔭᓄᐦ (Xc,! / 42bJ!) Yes! — WATER.
|
|
2704.1 | Megan | yAwN
|
|
2706.1 | Cueball | I learned a word.
I think.
|
|
2706.2 | Megan | Oh?
|
|
2707.1 | Cueball | ᓭᘖᔭᓄᐨ (42bJ.)
"Water".
Probably.
|
|
2708.1 | Beanie-1 | ᓭᘖᔭᓄᐨ (42bJ.) Water.
|
|
2709.1 | Cueball | Or "Drink!"
|
|
2709.2 | Megan | Hmm.
|
|
2710.1 | Megan | There must be a faster way to...
|
|
2711.1 | Cueball | -Hey.
|
|
2713.1 | Megan | It's ok!
|
|
2722.1 | Cueball | ᓭᘖᔭᓄᐨ (42bJ.) Water.
|
|
2723.1 | Beanie-1 | ᔪᖉᔭᑫ ᙐᖚᐧ ᘊᓭᐧᖚᐤ ᑦᘈᖽᐣ ᔭ ᘝᖽᒣ
ᓭᘖᑦ ᖊᘊᐤ ᕋᖗ ᘝᙉᖉᔭ ᘖᐣᖗᔭ, ᘊᓭᘖᔭᓄᐤ (dXbg ZL' 34'6? cMN` b AN7 42" W3? q9
AQXb 2`9b, 342bJ?) You came from Balearica? Do you realise that
land will all be[come] [great-water]? (implying it is being flooded,
i.e. will become a sea)
|
|
2727.1 | Megan | Yes!
The sea is rising!
|
|
2727.2 | Cueball | Why is that happening?
|
|
2729.1 | Beanie-2 | ᖽᔑᐣᘖ ᖚᐣᘖᖗᑫ ᘝᐣᖽ ᘊᒣᑦᖽᘝᐨ (@NS`2
L`29g A`N 37cNA.@) We are going [to go] to [name of castle] (with
implicit understanding that means talking with leader)
|
|
2732.1 | Megan | They're going somewhere...
|
|
2732.2 | Cueball | ...and want us to come, too.
|
|
2735.1 | Cueball | Oh, speech!
There's someone we can talk to?
|
|
2737.1 | Megan | I get it -
It's less than a day away.
|
|
2737.2 | Cueball | Then let's do it.
|
|
2791.1 | Cueball | It's good, whatever it is.
|
|
2792.1 | Beanie-1 | ᒣᓭᐧᖊᔑᐨ (74'WS.) [yarrow]
|
|
2793.1 | Megan | Huh, ok.
ᒣᓭᐧᖊᔑᐨ (74'WS.) [yarrow]
|
|
2797.1 | Beanie-1 | ᑕᘊᐣᒣ ᘊᓭᑦᑕᖉᐨ / ᑕᘊᐣᒣ ᘊᓭᘖᔭᓄᐨ /
ᓭᘖᔭᓄᐦ (G3`7 34cGX. / G3`7 342bJ. / 42bJ!) (pointing to land on
map) [this is] Liguria. (pointing to salty sea on map) [this is]
[great-]water. (indicating motion from southwest, i.e. from where the
flood is arriving) Water!
|
|
2799.1 | Megan | I heard "water".
|
|
2799.2 | Cueball | Is it some kind of map?
|
|
2800.1 | Megan | I guess. But it's just a jumble of lines.
|
|
2800.2 | Cueball | Maybe those triangle things are rivers?
|
|
2801.1 | Beanie-3 | ᘝᘈᘖ / ᖽᔑᐣᘖ ᖚᒣᑕᑫᓭ ᘝᐣᖽ ᘊᒣᑦᖽᘝᐨ
(AM2 / NS`2 L7Gg4 A`N 37cNA.) [Comrade], we will [now] take
you to [name of castle].
|
|
2801.2 | Beanie-1 | ᖉᑦ,ᐨ (Xc,.) Yes.
|
|
2813.1 | Cueball | Wow.
There's a whole city up there.
|
|
2813.2 | Megan | Neat!
|
|
2815.1 | Gate | ᘖ (2)
|
|
2816.1 | Beanie-3 | ᘝᓄᘈᖉᐣᐨ (2JMX`.)
[name of city] (note that the first glyph matches that seen on gate)
|
|
2818.1 | Beanie-2 | ᖉ, ᘝᐣᖚᔭ,ᐨ (X, A`Lb,.) Good morning.
|
|
2818.2 | Hatted Guy | ᖉ, ᘝᐣᖚᔭ,ᐨ (X, A`Lb,.) Good morning.
|
|
2822.1 | Cueball | I like these little houses.
They-
|
|
2822.2 | Beanie-2 | ᘊᒣᑦᖽᘝᐨ (37cNA.)
[name of castle].
|
|
2822.3 | Megan | Oh.
|
|
2823.1 | Cueball | Oh.
|
|
2823.2 | Megan | Oh wow.
|
|
2826.1 | Megan | A real castle!
I never thought I'd see a real castle!
|
|
2827.1 | Cueball | I wasn't sure there were real castles.
|
|
2827.2 | Megan | Look at it. It's breathtaking.
|
|
2830.1 | Megan | Our castle was too small.
|
|
2831.1 | Beanie-2 | ᖽᔑᐣᘖ ᖚᐧᘖᖗᑫ ᘝᐣᖽ ᘊᓭᘖᑦᓄᐨ (NS`2
L29g A`N 342"j.) We are going [to go] to [name of leader].
|
|
2836.1 | Beanie-2 | ᘈᘊᘖᐨ (M32.) Aloha.
|
|
2836.2 | Beanette | ᖉ, ᘝᐣᖚᔭ,ᐨ (X, A`Lb,.) Good morning.
|
|
2837.1 | Beanie-1 | ᖉ, ᘝᐣᖚᔭᐦ (X, A`Lb,.) Good morning!
|
|
2837.2 | Beanette | ᘝᘈᘖᐦ ᖉ, ᘝᐣᖚᔭᐦ (AM2! X,
A`Lb!) [Comrade]! Good morning!
|
|
2844.1 | Megan | Neat!
|
|
2858.1 | Rosetta | ᘈᘊᘖᐨ (M32.) Aloha.
|
|
2859.1 | Beanie-3 | ᘈᘊᘖᐨ (M32.) Aloha.
|
|
2859.2 | Beanie-2 | ᘈᘊᘖᐨ (M32.) Aloha.
|
|
2860.1 | Rosetta | ᙐᖚᐧ ᓭᔭᑦᘖ ᘛᘝᖚᘈᐤ (ZL' 4b"2
UALM?) From where are [these people]? (referring to the two strangers)
|
|
2861.1 | Beanie-1 | ᘝᐣᑕᑦᖚᑫ ᓭᐧᘖ ᙐᖚᐧ ᘊᓭᐧᖚᐨ
(A`9G"Lg 4'2 ZL' 34'6.) They are from Balearica.
|
|
2861.2 | Beanie-2 | ᖉᔭᒣᘊᐣᘖᑫᖗ ᖽᘛᕋᑦᐨ (Xb73`2g9
NUq".) They are alone.
|
|
2863.1 | Cueball | Hello!
|
|
2863.2 | Megan | Do you understand us?
|
|
2865.1 | Rosetta | [somewhat]
|
|
2867.1 | Cueball | I think we understand you, too!
|
|
2868.1 | Rosetta | [Whence have you traveled here?]
|
|
2869.1 | Megan | We came here up the mountain.
We're from the sea.
|
|
2870.1 | Rosetta | [You arose here from the
desert below? Nobody transpires there.]
|
|
2872.1 | Megan | We, um...
We didn't quite understand that.
|
|
2873.1 | Rosetta | [I am sorry. Your language is
like those spoken by the (...) difficult (...) but I learned it.]
|
|
2874.1 | Rosetta | [Please be patient.]
|
|
2874.2 | Cueball | Of course.
|
|
2875.1 | Rosetta | ᘛᐣ ᘝᔭᖊᖽ ᖊᑦᘖ ᘖᘝᒣᘛᐨ (U` AbWN
W,2 2A7U.) Prepare a room/space for them.
|
|
2875.2 | Beanie-2 | ᔪᑫᐨ (dG.) Ok.
|
|
2877.1 | Beanie-2 | ᘈᘊᘖᐨ (M32.) Aloha.
|
|
2878.1 | Rosetta | [They understand nothing so
they will tend to matters.]
|
|
2878.2 | Megan | Of course.
|
|
2879.1 | Rosetta | [Your bags]
|
|
2880.1 | Megan | What do you want our bags for?
|
|
2880.2 | Rosetta | [They are heavy.]
|
|
2880.3 | Megan | ...oh. Thank you!
|
|
2885.1 | Cueball | Thank you!
|
|
2885.2 | Rosetta | [You're welcome]
|
|
2886.1 | Rosetta | [Tell me where your home is.]
|
|
2887.1 | Megan | We live by the shore,
near a river that flows down to the sea every year.
|
|
2887.2 | Rosetta | [What river?]
|
|
2888.1 | Megan | It's a smaller river - not the one that flows from your land.
We collect things that float down it.
|
|
2889.1 | Cueball | There are people in the hills where our river comes from.
|
|
2889.2 | Megan | They don't like us.
|
|
2890.1 | Rosetta | [How many people strong are you?]
|
|
2891.1 | Cueball | There are about forty of us.
|
|
2891.2 | Rosetta | [What is forty? My numbers are too small.]
|
|
2891.3 | Megan | Um. Four ten times. Five eight times.
|
|
2891.4 | Rosetta | [Yes! Good.]
|
|
2892.1 | Rosetta | [Do you carry these people with you?]
|
|
2893.1 | Megan | No, we came here alone.
|
|
2893.2 | Rosetta | [Oh.]
|
|
2893.3 | Megan | We're here to find out why the sea is changing.
|
|
2893.4 | Rosetta | [Um.]
|
|
2894.1 | Rosetta | [You do not know. I (...) .]
|
|
2894.2 | Cueball | ...did you get that?
|
|
2894.3 | Megan | No.
|
|
2895.1 | Rosetta |
[Your sea does not stand alone! There is another sea next to it (...) beyond the (...) shore. It has become fused to yours but (...) levels differ and thus river flows]
|
|
2895.2 | Cueball | Wait, slow down
|
|
2896.1 | Megan | No, I think I understood.
There's a second sea, a higher one, and its waters have started flowing into ours.
|
|
2896.2 | Cueball | Why? What connected them?
|
|
2896.3 | Megan | Yeah - what changed?
|
|
2897.1 | Rosetta |
[In time even the hills change. When people first walked and first built (...) cities the seas were joined. But (...) there was a great (...) rock (...) and the passage was closed. Your sea (...) with too few rivers. Under the sun it shrank and the water fell. Now the sea has found a way back in.]
|
|
2898.1 | Cueball | How different are the seas' heights?
How high will the water eventually rise? Should we move our home?
|
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2898.2 | Rosetta | [Do you know where you are?]
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2899.1 | Cueball | No.
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2899.2 | Rosetta | [I (...) will build you a map to understanding.]
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2901.1 | Rosetta | [This fortress is here]
[This sea is yours]
[This sea is joining yours]
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2901.2 | (map) | ᘊᖊᑦᓄ ᘊᓭᐧᑲ (3W,J 34'6) brines of Balearica
ᘊᖊᑦᓄ ?ᓄᐣᔭ (3W,J 7J`b) brines of Ionius
ᑫᘊᘊ (933) berm or Gibraltar
ᘊᓭᑦᑕᖉ (34cGX) Liguria (lands east of the Rhône)
ᘖᓄᘈᖉᐣ (2JMX`) (place near Chateau d'if)
ᓭᘊᘊ (433) (place just south of Chateau d'if)
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2902.1 | Rosetta | [And this is our belief about the sea's new shore.]
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2903.1 | Megan | The sea can cover mountains?
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2904.1 | Rosetta |
[We learned it has happened before. When our parents were learning to walk upright the sea fled and returned.]
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2905.1 | Rosetta | [Now it is happening again.]
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2907.1 | Megan | The shoreline goes right through where the castle is.
Where we are right now.
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2907.2 | Rosetta | [Yes]
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2908.1 | Rosetta | [This castle was once an island. We found it and have tried to rebuild it.]
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2909.1 | Rosetta | [I guess it will be an island again.]
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2910.1 | Cueball | Who are you?
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2910.2 | Rosetta |
[We are scholars. This fortress swarms with scholars. And I am their leader.]
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2911.1 | Megan | I still can't imagine it.
Every place we've walked will someday be inside the sea.
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2912.1 | Megan | We need to get back home
We need to get started on plans to move.
Can we have one of your maps? That would help-
...are you ok?
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2913.1 | Rosetta | [I am so sorry.]
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2913.2 | Cueball | What?
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2914.1 | Rosetta | [When we discovered the river was coming under the bank we tried to shore it up. We failed. We tried to remove everybody from the basin. But we did not know of your tribe.]
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2915.1 | Megan | No, it's ok!
I've been thinking.
At the rate we saw the sea rising, it will take years to-
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2915.2 | Rosetta | [No.]
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2916.1 | Rosetta |
[As the water flows it widens the breach. The berm is giving way. The sea will rush through in a giant current. The planet's mightiest river will once again come thundering down the mountainside. The sea will fill not in years but in days.]
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2917.1 | Rosetta |
[The journey to your land is much too long. I will not send (...) only to see them encircled and drowned by the rising tide.]
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2918.1 | Rosetta |
[The world you know is ending. But fortune has delivered you from the flood. You did not intend to leave your home forever, but be thankful you left when you did.]
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2918.2 | Cueball | But-
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2919.1 | Rosetta |
[You must say your goodbyes from here. You cannot go back down into the abyss.
For you have walked too far and now there is no more time to walk.
The ocean is coming.]
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2928.1 | Cueball | ...Oh! Hi!
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2928.2 | Beanie-1 | ᖉ, ᘝᐣᖚᔭ,ᐨ (X, A`Lb,.) good morning
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2929.1 | Cueball | I, uhh...
Thank you for-
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2929.2 | Megan | ᒣᓭᐧᖊᔑᐨ (74'WS.) [yarrow]
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2929.3 | Cueball | Thank you.
We have to go.
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2930.1 | Beanie-1 | ᘈᘊᘖᐨ (M32.) Aloha
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2930.2 | Megan | Goodbye!
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2931.1 | Cueball | It's getting
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2931.2 | Cueball | late.
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2931.3 | Megan | We can make it
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2931.4 | Megan | to the tower
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2931.5 | Megan | tonight
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2932.1 | Cueball | We can't run
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2932.2 | Cueball | the whole way
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2932.3 | Megan | Nope
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2936.1 | Hatted Guy | ᖉ, ᘝᐣᖚᔭ,ᐨ (X, A`Lb,.) good morning
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2937.1 | Cueball | Hi!
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2937.2 | Cueball | Probably.
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2945.1 | Cueball | Not much further!
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2953.1 | Cueball | I dreamed I woke up in the water.
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2957.1 | Cueball | I hope they don't mind us taking some of the food and water here.
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2957.2 | Megan | Mm.
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2958.1 | Cueball | Maybe we should have stayed to ask.
But I was starting to get a little creeped out.
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2958.2 | Megan | Yeah.
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2962.1 | Cueball | Still,
maybe they could have helped us find a faster way back.
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2963.1 | Cueball | ...Are you OK?
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2963.2 | Megan | I did something that was wrong.
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2964.1 | Cueball | !!!
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2965.1 | Cueball | You stole the maps!
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2965.2 | Megan | I'll give them back someday!
I hope.
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2965.3 | Cueball | This is great!
There are so many!
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2966.1 | Cueball | We must be here, right?
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2966.2 | Megan | Yeah.
So, we can follow our old path down the mountain, then cut across land through the hills.
I'm guessing they're empty. It sounds like everyone knew but us.
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2966.3 | Cueball | Yeah.
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2966.4 | Megan | Ok. We can do this, probably.
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2972.1 | Megan | The stuff they put on my leg worked great.
What do you think it was?
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2972.2 | Cueball | No idea.
I'm just glad they had it.
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2973.1 | Megan | Along with the maps, I should've stolen a guide to treating injuries.
Ooh, and one on how they make those pointing devices in the towers...
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2973.2 | Cueball | Um...
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2986.1 | Cueball | Just go uphill. Don't stop, don't get stuck.
You can make it.
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2989.1 | Parent Chirpy | Chirp!
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2989.2 | Baby Chirpy | flap flapflap flap
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2995.1 | Cueball | Well, no one's coming down yelling or throwing stuff. I guess the hills are empty.
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2995.2 | Megan | I wish we had time to go up and explore them.
I'd love to learn how they get all that stuff.
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2998.1 | Cueball | Is that the sea?
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2998.2 | Megan | ...should it be in view already?
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3001.1 | Cueball | I know this place.
There definitely shouldn't be water here.
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3001.2 | Megan | Uh oh.
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3001.3 | Cueball | The sea must be flowing up old riverbeds.
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3001.4 | Megan | If it's here it must be close to joining the river. How high up do you think we are?
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3001.5 | Cueball | No idea. How do you even measure that?
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3001.6 | Megan | I don't know.
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3002.1 | Cueball | Oh!
I used to come out
to this rock
when I was little.
*breathe*
...it's weird
being the last person
to see it.
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3003.1 | Megan | Whoa, wait.
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3004.1 | Megan | Look at the spot where we crossed the riverbed.
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3004.2 | Cueball | Oh.
Oh no.
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3006.1 | Megan | There they are!
I see people coming over the rise across the...
...water.
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3007.1 | Cueball | I can't tell how deep it is.
These things seem to be snaking in from all along the coast. We should've come from more inland.
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3007.2 | Megan | I was trying, but inland keeps moving!
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3008.1 | Cueball | They're headed this way. They must be planning to cross here.
Do you think it's safe?
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3008.2 | Megan | It should be -
it's not actually a river; they can swim if they need.
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3009.1 | Cueball | We should cross.
They're not here yet, and it's getting deeper. Better to get on their side while we can.
Then we can help them back over if it's safe.
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3009.2 | Megan | Good thinking.
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3010.1 | Cueball | I can feel it flowing...
...but something seems wrong.
Hang on.
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3011.1 | Cueball | (Splash) AUGH!
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3011.2 | Megan | What??
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3012.1 | Cueball | It's —
*tphbtt*
— it's fresh! Not as fresh as a river, but too fresh to float on —
definitely not while holding a bag.
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3012.2 | Megan | I guess the other sea is fresh water. I hope it's shallow enough to ford.
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3013.1 | Cueball | I'll go first, since you have the maps.
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3013.2 | Megan | I think this bag will keep them pretty dry if it has to. It's a good bag.
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3014.1 | Cueball | Whoa, careful - the current gets strong!
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3014.2 | Megan | Oof!
It's not even that deep but...
...I can barely...
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3014.3 | Cueball | Almost there...
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3015.1 | Cueball | That was a little too close.
Oh, they definitely see us!
HEY!
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3015.2 | Bunny (o.o.v.) | !!!!!
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3015.3 | Megan | I think I can actually see it rising, at the edge.
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3016.1 | Bunny | YOU'RE BACK!
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3016.2 | Megan | THE SEA IS NOT GOING TO STOP RISING! WE HAVE TO GET TO THE MOUNTAINS!
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3016.3 | Cueball | ...hello!
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3017.1 | Bunny | Where did you go?
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3017.2 | Megan | To the mountains! We learned everything!
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3017.3 | Bunny | Everything?
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3017.4 | Megan | Most of it!
Where's everyone else?
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3018.1 | Bunny | The hills are empty!
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3018.2 | Megan | We know!
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3018.3 | Bunny | It's great! We don't have to wait for them to throw stuff away! A bunch of us are up there right now going through what they left behind!
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3018.4 | Megan | But, the flood!
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3018.5 | Cueball | Oh, no.
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3019.1 | Buzzcut | The kids told us about the sea a few days ago. I said we should move to the hills, but others wanted to keep clear in case the people return.
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3019.2 | Bunny | When we saw it was coming up the riverbed, I left with this group. The others are getting ready to leave but wanted to see if the water-
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3019.3 | Megan | How many?
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3019.4 | Bunny | There are twelve of us back at the camp.
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3019.5 | Megan | ...we have to go back.
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3019.6 | Cueball | Huh...
I think there's stuff floating on the sea.
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3020.1 | Megan | We might be able to cross here, but the next group won't.
The currents are strong and the water has changed. It's getting fresher, like a river. We can't float across, unless any of you can swim on fresh water.
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3020.2 | Littlest Bangs Brother | My cousin says she can swim across a river.
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3020.3 | Megan | Well, can she carry all of us?
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3020.4 | Littlest Bangs Brother | I'll ask her.
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3020.5 | Megan | There seem to be more of these channels. We shouldn't split the group further just to get trapped among them.
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3020.6 | Littlest Bangs Brother | Except I can't find her...
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3020.7 | Buzzcut | Ok, what do we do?
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3020.8 | Cueball | I think there's something on the sea.
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3021.1 | Megan | We have to get everyone together.
We have to find something to help us cross rivers and sea-channels.
We have to head the other way, across the plain,
toward the mountains.
We need to run.
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3024.1 | Megan | As you can tell, the sea is coming up the river.
These low channels are going to fill quickly,
we need to get away from them, move along them on high ground to join up with the group in the hills, and then escape across the plains to the mountains.
I have maps to show us the way.
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3025.1 | Cueball | To avoid being trapped by these sea-rivers - or the regular rivers - we need a way to cross them.
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3025.2 | Megan | They're too fresh to swim over, so we'll have to bring things to float with. They need to be light enough to carry, so wood won't work.
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3026.1 | Megan | Bags might work; some of them can hold air if they get wet.
But grab whatever you can - we may already be too late.
And the currents are strong, so we'll need rope...
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3027.1 | Megan | And I-
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3027.2 | Littlest Bangs Brother | HEY!
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3028.1 | Littlest Bangs Brother | I found my cousin!
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3032.1 | LaPetite |
Hi!
I saw the water was trying to cover your neat castle,
so I made it into a boat!
Most of the sand fell down.
When it came loose I floated for a while!
And then the sea pushed me up here.
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3033.1 | LaPetite | I don't know how to stop!
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3033.2 | Bunny | Oh, um. Rope!
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3035.1 | Megan | Ok, everyone!
Forget everything I just said. New plan.
We're going to do something that may never have been done before:
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3036.1 | Megan | We're going to ride a raft up a river.
But we have to work fast.
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3041.1 | Megan | The water is coming over the banks!
This place is ending and it's time to go.
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3050.1 | Bunny | This is really hard.
If we drift into the shallows,
we can sort of push back toward the main channel.
But only barely.
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3051.1 | Megan | That's ok - you've done great.
We're headed straight up the river channel!
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3052.1 | Megan | And we seem to be speeding up.
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3054.1 | Megan | Oof.
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3055.1 | Megan | Is there any way to keep us pointing forward?
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3055.2 | Cueball | We could start calling this the front.
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3056.1 | Megan | Ok, we're coming into the hills.
We need a way to-
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3056.2 | Buzzcut | Look!
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3057.1 | Cueganite #1 | HEY!
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3057.2 | Cueganite #2 | Hellooo!
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3057.3 | (o.o.v.) | It's them!
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3058.1 | Cueganite #2 | YOU'RE SAFE!
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3058.2 | Cueganite #3 | Careful! Don't tip!
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3058.3 | (o.o.v.) | What is that?
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3058.4 | (o.o.v.) | Head toward them!
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3058.5 | (o.o.v.) | How?
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3058.6 | (o.o.v.) | Oh. Right.
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3059.1 | Cueganite #1 | They're going to float past us.
Can we push out into the current?
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3059.2 | Cueganite #3 | Trying.
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3059.3 | (o.o.v.) | Who has the rope?
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3062.1 | Cueball | Careful! Slow and steady - don't break the rope!
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3066.1 | Curly | We saw from the hills that the route back was washed out.
So we found a raft and tried to get to you by the river.
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3066.2 | Part | But then the river started going backward and we got stuck.
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3066.3 | Pulled Back | Why is everything flooding?
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3066.4 | Shorty | Why is the water full of trees?
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3066.5 | Sandy | Why do you have little tables covered in sand?
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3066.6 | Cueball | We can explain.
But first-
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3067.1 | Cueball | What's our plan? How much time do you think we have to get across the plain?
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3067.2 | Megan | None.
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3067.3 | Cueball | Ok, we have to move fast-
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3067.4 | Megan | -no, none. I figured out some of the maps.
If the sea is here, we're already cut off. There's nowhere left to run to.
We're going to have to ride it out.
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3078.1 | Megan | hey
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3079.1 | Megan | Everyone still asleep?
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3079.2 | Cueball | Yeah.
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3082.1 | Cueball | ...Land!
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3083.1 | Megan | We've been heading right toward it since sunrise.
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3084.1 | Cueball | Land!
Wake up, everybody!
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3084.2 | Castleraft |
(Scraaaaape)
(Crunch)
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3085.1 | Cueball | Wow.
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3086.1 | Cueball | Where do you think we are?
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3086.2 | Megan | I don't know.
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3087.1 | Megan | But I bet we can figure it out!
C'mon, let's see what's through here!
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3089.1 | | THE END
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