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Sisters
姐妹
在姐妹关系结束之前交换的记号和象征的记录。
“西罗，我勇敢的妹妹，真是辛苦你了，把尸体从产房搬出来！来吧，来开会船，为我们的针舰能做的事感到高兴吧。”
西罗试图抗议，但她暗自为奥拉什的照顾感到高兴。她驾驶着那艘针船转着切圈儿，沉入海底。他们的尾流浮上水面，就像叛徒垂死的最后一口气。
“奥拉什，孤独的航海家，我们一起旅行了这么久。我知道你喜欢听和说新的语言。来，坐在血肉花园房间里。我要给你读我在卡尔恩(Kaharn)买的这些故事。”
奥拉什闭着两只眼睛坐在干尸肉扇中，倾听着默默听着萨托娜的故事，渴望了解，渴望在她十年的生命逝去之前了解尽可能多的东西。
不久，西罗说：“不要再想这些事情了，你在思考中变得孤独。和我玩‘刀剑神灯’吧！”
但萨托娜却悲伤欲绝，当她追着西罗穿过闪闪发光的针舰大厅时，她无法假装出任何喜悦。
“喜欢沉思的萨托娜，怎么了？什么麻烦又找上你了？”
她的姐妹们听着萨托娜说:“姐妹们，我们已经五岁了。两年来，我们一直致力于修复这艘古船并了解其系统。我已经太老了，不适合再吃下育母凝胶，而杀死我们父亲的骑士们也一定已经风年残烛。
“我们三个将在流放中死在这里。陶克斯会比我们活得久。还有奥拉什，眼睛明亮的奥拉什，在你找到天罚巨浪的证据，或者找到任何办法阻止它之前，你早就会老死了。”
奥拉什和西罗面面相觑。“我希望你不要这么诚实，”西罗说。
奥拉什认为萨托娜从来没有错过。
在她的灵魂深处，奥拉什知道遵守誓言的唯一方法就是找到一个伟大而强大的秘密。一个可以改变一切的秘密。
这就是奥拉什的灵魂，她的火焰和她的影子——她渴望穿过世界的侧翼，找到它跳动的心脏。
“我们必须下潜，”奥拉什说。“这就是建造这艘船的目的。潜入大地，潜入我们脚下的世界……向着核心。”
“古代船员就是在那里惨死的”，西罗抗议道。“那就是产房里的暴行诞生的地方……”
“我们必须下潜，”萨托娜说，跟着她熟悉的人的低语。“在我们脚下的世界，在金属般的深处，我希望我们能找到我们最需要的东西。
More time. More life.
更多的时间。更长的生命。
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原文：
Verse 1:6 Sisters
A register of tokens and gestures exchanged before the end of sisterhood.
"Xi Ro, my brave sister, you have worked too hard to move the carcasses out of the birthing room! Come. Steer the ship for a while. Take joy in what our needle can do."
Xi Ro tried to protest, but secretly, she was so glad for Aurash's care. She flew the needle ship in cutting circles, down beneath the sea: and their wake rose up to the surface like a traitor's dying breath.
“Aurash, lonely navigator, we have traveled so long with only each other. I know you love to hear and speak new tongues. Come, sit in the flesh garden room. I will read you these stories I bought at Kaharn."
Aurash sat among the mummified flesh fans with two of her eyes closed and listened in silence to Sathona's stories, hungry to understand, voracious to know as much as she could before her ten year life died.
Later, Xi Ro said, "Sathona, cutting mind of ours, you grow lonely in your thought. Play swords and lanterns with me!"
But Sathona was heavy with sorrow, and couldn't pretend any joy as she chased Xi Ro through the needle's glistening halls.
"Sathona, pensive one, what is it? What troubles you?"
Her sisters listened as Sathona said "Oath-bearing siblings, we are five years old. For two years we've worked to repair this ancient ship and understand its systems. I am almost too old for the mother jelly, and the knights who killed our father are surely dying of age.
"We three will die here, in exile. Taox will outlive us. And Aurash, brilliant-eyed Aurash, you will die of old age long before you have proof of your God-Wave, or any way to stop it."
Aurash and Xi Ro looked at each other. "I wish you weren't so honest," Xi Ro said.
And Aurash thought that Sathona had never been wrong.
In her soul Aurash knew that the only way to keep their oath was to find a great, powerful secret. A secret that could change everything.
This was Aurash's soul, her fire and her shadow-her desire to cut through the flank of the world and find its beating heart.
"We have to dive," Aurash said. "That's what this ship is built to do. Dive into the Fundament, the world below us... towards the core."
"That's where the ancient crew died so obscenely," Xi Ro protested. "That's where the atrocity in the birthing room was born..."
"We have to dive," Sathona said, following the whispers of her familiar. "In the world beneath us, in the metallic depths, I hope we may find what we need most...
More time. More life.