City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)(158)

She drops the canister overboard. It sinks almost instantly beneath the dark waves.

She watches the waves, wondering what they know, what they remember.

Time renders all people and all things silent, she thinks. But I will speak of you, of all of you, for all the time I have.

Then she turns and walks to the bow of the ship, to look ahead into the sun and the wind and the bright new waves, and to wait for sight of home.