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The Keeper's Daughter
Eight tides a year the sea gave; the ninth, it collected.
Answer the Water
Maren walked into the surf to her knees and spoke her name to the dark.
Climb Instead
Maren did not go to the water.
The Audit
By dawn she had matched every mark to a name and every name to a grave, and found the sea had overcharged by one.