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. Are we going to
be tested on it?
Anyway, you had told Ark to send in his report by
sundown tonight or else, and I knew Ark couldn't very well
do that while he was asleep, so I've decided to do his work
for him and surprise him when he wakes up. Isn't that great?
I'm going to find out what everyone thinks of the
Cataclysm, and I'll write it all down and send it right to you
on the facts machine, which I took with me. Ark will be so
proud! Sometimes, when he's bailing me out of jail, he says
that he should have left me by the side of the road, which is
how he became my foster father, as he found me on his way
into town when I was a baby just after the time of the
Cataclysm. He raised me and showed me how to fix shoes
and how to count and read and everything, but we do have
our moments when things don't go right, which seems to
happen more often lately, now that I'm bigger, but that's
how families work sometimes, you know.
Anyway, here I am now, down by the harbor in the
alley beside Goodwife Filster's bakery, trying to stay out of
the wind and keep warm. Ark said I should write down
important things while I'm out today, so I will do that and
send them to you, and I think I should write down
something about Newshore and its politics and religion, but
Newshore doesn't have much of either. I could also talk
about how Newshore got its name, as it used to be a farm
until Istar got mashed and the sea came up and northern
Ergoth turned into an island, and you can still see the
sunken foundation stones of an old barn just offshore, in a
place Ark shows me when we go fishing, but everybody
here knows about that
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