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Chapter 18: What has sunk shall rise again (part 1)

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"'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'

'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.

'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'"

–Lewis carol

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"Hey, are you seeing this?"

"Yeah, why?"

"No I mean, Val look, what's going on over there?"

Looking away from the road, I followed Pearl's finger pointing somewhere on my left, somewhere outside.

My gaze lingered on the tiny, bright blue gemstones gleaming so prettily against her hand for a moment or two before I looked (and it was all because she was now forcefully making my head turn) ... only to let out a low whistle, suddenly very much intrigued.