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Vitri is flying—no, no, he isn’t flying, but he isn’t walking, isn’t jumping, isn’t running; he is seated but still soaring through the sky—ascending, knifing through clouds. He is atop something, some soundless creature he, because he can feel its flaps, knows to have wings. He lets his arms dangle, lets his...