Soul Hunt by Ronald Margaret

Author:Ronald, Margaret [Ronald, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2010-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Let me tell you a story my mother told me.

Once there was a city built on a thin neck of land stretching out into the ocean, and over time more people came to that city than the frail land could hold. So the city cut down its hills to fill in the harbor and dragged up the land from the bottom of the tidal flats. It ate up the sea, and looked around for more, and the land took over where the water had been.

But with so many people in it, the city began to thirst. And the rivers—those poor, polluted things that served as sewers and waterways and everything else—couldn’t keep up with the city’s demands. The clear springs that had once sufficed for that first, fragile settlement were now gone, built over or dried up or simply lost. The city built reservoir after reservoir, seeking more fresh water—not just for its thirst, but for its fires too, as those consumed neighborhood after neighborhood. But no matter how many reserves the city put in place, they were not enough.

What could you do to quench such a thirst? What would you sacrifice to keep your city from burning?

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