Lefeng hadn't been there when Paiokp's bad luck caused the fishing ground to fail 10 storm seasons back. Wasn't there when eir family turned their backs on em after the death of eir Cenn. Wasn't there for… so many things. Sometimes Paiokp worried that eir bad luck might have, in some way, caused the great wave. But others before em had been sun-touched, and surely the wave would have come many times if it was a matter of bad luck. Surely that – all those deaths – couldn't be eir fault as well.
Paiokp's vision blurred and ey blinked away tears. The light coming through the screen had dimmed enough. Ey carefully rolled up the work and wrapped it up in a linen sheet. And then ey left.
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3000 words of Planting Life edited today. Yay progress!