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Cards: Beachy and coastly: seacoast market i27, smells: fish B9, N32: beachy and coastly: Alqualonde, B14: Booktitle: fragile things
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Gen
Warnings: None

It should be quiet here.

That is what the elders say. What my mother says, when she speaks, if she speaks at all. But fragile things, as they often turn out to be, are actually quite strong in the end. Many of the houses are still in ruins. We have found all the dead, but not given them rest. How could we, when we were promised no one would rot here? And yet, they do. They will soon be returned, the messenger says. With new bodies, all brand new flesh and bone. Eventually, we release them. They float away in flashes of fire on the water, much like the ships they so valiantly sought to defend.