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He was the ridge’s keeper, though no one had appointed him to the post. He simply stayed. The others—the few families who had once eked out a living here—had drifted down to the valley towns, where the soil was darker and the wind didn’t peel the paint from doors by noon. But Yarlist stayed. He said the ridge spoke to him.

“Watch,” Yarlist said.

They drifted upward from the sea, slow as bubbles rising through honey. They passed through the cliff face as if it were water. And one by one, they reached the ridge and walked into Yarlist’s house. yarlist'

She sat, partly because she was cold, partly because when Yarlist spoke like that—quiet, certain—it was hard to refuse. The ground hummed under her palms. He was the ridge’s keeper, though no one

“Yarlist,” she said.