The Edge of the Water, page 7 of 12

Dawn rises tall out of the pool with the water lifting around her while Pip looks up from the stone far below, very small and very still.

Dawn rose to look at him properly, and the water rose with her, and Pip saw how much of her there was.

The speech left him.

I want to see where you breathe, he said, which was not part of it.

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