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Ninety Fathoms to Anywhere
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Iyla read the label on one jar: wheat, drought-proof, the last of its kind. Their father hadn't hidden treasure. He'd hidden a future. "The ridge people are starving," Sefu breathed. "With these we could grow food anywhere." They filled the bell with jars and pulled the signal rope to rise.
Back on the surface, Iyla and Sefu rowed the jars to the high ridge. The hungry families gathered as the siblings explained the seeds. Within a season, green shoots covered the bare rock. People came from far islands just to learn how. The two of them worked side by side, and never went three years silent again.
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