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The monster smashed its bony head against the invisible wall again, its mouth opening slightly to let a thin stream of bubbles past its jagged teeth, and for a few seconds the force keeping the sea out flickered ominously…
Another crash, and suddenly there was a tear in the sky and the sea was pouring down towards them in a solid band of grey and white. It hit the buildings behind…

Always pale, now she was a sister to the snows that lay about them. Every freckle stood out on her face with alarming clarity.

“She glanced up to look into the shivering, nine-eyed gaze of the centipede queen. ‘Ah,’ she said. ‘I wouldn’t have thought such a face could convey anger so accurately. Fascinating.’”

“How was it possible to love a place so much, and yet to feel like you’d be glad to see the back of it at the same time?”

“Minh’s favourite time of the day was the very early morning. As he made his way down to the spider enclosure in dawn’s first light, the forest would be just waking up, and the relentless sun had yet to turn the air between the trees into a humid fog. He would listen to the bats, a great invisible world beyond the leaves that he only caught the occasional glimpse of”