Sink: The Complete Series by Perrin Briar

Author:Perrin Briar [Briar, Perrin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-03-09T07:00:00+00:00

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“NO MATTER how many times you tell me there are guards watching over me, I can’t bring myself to believe it,” Cartographer said. “Why didn’t they tell me they were taking care of me?”

“Because they would hardly be a secret force then, would they?” Cassie said.

“I suppose not,” Cartographer said. “So, where are you really from?”

“The surface,” Zoe said.

“The surface of what?” Cartographer said.

“Of the world,” Zoe said.

It took a moment for the penny to drop, and when it did, it resulted in the rising of the cartographer’s wispy white eyebrows and the wrinkles to pile up on his tall forehead.

“The surface?” Cartographer said.

“Yes,” Zoe said.

“But they were just myths,” Cartographer said. “Old stories from a time long ago.”

“Well, they’re true,” Zoe said.

“Is it true what they say?” Cartographer said. “You sit on fluffy white clouds and play harps?”

“Okay, the stories aren’t entirely true,” Zoe said. “The surface is a lot like it is here. People going about their lives, some doing good things, some bad. Just getting by.”

“I’ve always wondered what it must be like up there, if there even was a surface at all,” Cartographer said. “What it must look like, what the maps were like.”

“I can show you, if you want,” Zoe said.

“I would love that,” Cartographer said.

“I’m no artist like you, but I can give you a vague idea of what it looks like,” Zoe said. “My knowledge of Asia is a little sketchy.”

“Asia is real too?” Cartographer said, shaking his head in disbelief.

“Sure,” Zoe said. “It’s a large continent.”

“So there are such things as continents!” Cartographer said, dumbfounded.

He balled his hands into fists and held them above his head, a look of surprised approval on his face.

“Sorry,” he said. “I had a wager with one of the other cartographers. It seemed strange to me to have a word like ‘continent’ when there was only one real landmass here. I figured it was from a time when the world had a different shape, when there were many continents.”

“There are six continents,” Zoe said.

“Six!” Cartographer said. “And I was right—about how they keep moving around?”

“You were,” Zoe said. “It’s due to plate tectonics and processes called-”

“Enough with the lecture,” Bryan said. “We need to focus. We’ve got an important mission to complete. Here’s the deal: if we get the information we need, we’ll give you as much information about the surface as you’d like.”

“Sounds fair enough,” Cartographer said.

“We need to get our hands on the map,” Bryan said. “How do we go about doing that?”

“You don’t,” Cartographer said. “Only King and Admiral have access to the complete map. I’m in charge of just a small part of the map. No one but the king and Admiral has access to the whole map. If anyone else did, there might be a chance that they would sell it to the pirates and live on one of their islands, living like a king.”

“How many cartographers are there?” Zoe said.

“Seven,” Cartographer said.

“Too many,” Bryan said. “We’ll never be able to locate them all.

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