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Sisters
姐妹
在姐妹關係結束之前交換的記號和象徵的記錄。
“西羅，我勇敢的妹妹，真是辛苦你了，把屍體從產房搬出來！來吧，來開會船，為我們的針艦能做的事感到高興吧。”
西羅試圖抗議，但她暗自為奧拉什的照顧感到高興。她駕駛著那艘針船轉著切圈兒，沉入海底。他們的尾流浮上水面，就像叛徒垂死的最後一口氣。
“奧拉什，孤獨的航海家，我們一起旅行了這麼久。我知道你喜歡聽和說新的語言。來，坐在血肉花園房間裡。我要給你讀我在卡爾恩(Kaharn)買的這些故事。”
奧拉什閉著兩隻眼睛坐在乾屍肉扇中，傾聽著默默聽著薩託娜的故事，渴望瞭解，渴望在她十年的生命逝去之前瞭解儘可能多的東西。
不久，西羅說：“不要再想這些事情了，你在思考中變得孤獨。和我玩‘刀劍神燈’吧！”
但薩託娜卻悲傷欲絕，當她追著西羅穿過閃閃發光的針艦大廳時，她無法假裝出任何喜悅。
“喜歡沉思的薩託娜，怎麼了？什麼麻煩又找上你了？”
她的姐妹們聽著薩託娜說:“姐妹們，我們已經五歲了。兩年來，我們一直致力於修復這艘古船並瞭解其系統。我已經太老了，不適合再吃下育母凝膠，而殺死我們父親的騎士們也一定已經風年殘燭。
“我們三個將在流放中死在這裡。陶克斯會比我們活得久。還有奧拉什，眼睛明亮的奧拉什，在你找到天罰巨浪的證據，或者找到任何辦法阻止它之前，你早就會老死了。”
奧拉什和西羅面面相覷。“我希望你不要這麼誠實，”西羅說。
奧拉什認為薩託娜從來沒有錯過。
在她的靈魂深處，奧拉什知道遵守誓言的唯一方法就是找到一個偉大而強大的秘密。一個可以改變一切的秘密。
這就是奧拉什的靈魂，她的火焰和她的影子——她渴望穿過世界的側翼，找到它跳動的心臟。
“我們必須下潛，”奧拉什說。“這就是建造這艘船的目的。潛入大地，潛入我們腳下的世界……向著核心。”
“古代船員就是在那裡慘死的”，西羅抗議道。“那就是產房裡的暴行誕生的地方……”
“我們必須下潛，”薩託娜說，跟著她熟悉的人的低語。“在我們腳下的世界，在金屬般的深處，我希望我們能找到我們最需要的東西。
More time. More life.
更多的時間。更長的生命。
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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.