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Eldri wakes in Bibury. He stares in blank horror at the sky. Joffun scratches lines, circles, crosses into the walls of his prison cell. Navvy Jim throws rock, rock, rock, but against an emu rock cannot hold. Sea captain Drake Steverns, man of legend, wheels and turns his ship for home —

But he is too late.

The world is different. He is swallowed, ship and all, by the paper serpent; it has risen from the sea.

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