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by N. Rintara
A girl who hears machines.A boy whose body is turning into armor.A man the Old World buried alive. Rin has always heard more than other people — wind, rain, footsteps, the small sounds hidden between notes. But one night, beneath her grandfather's music, she hears a machine humming under their house. Buried below Breeze Isle is Eli, a man preserved since the day the world shattered into the floating islands of the Sky-Sea. Waking him may be the only way to save Jakr, Rin's reckless little brother, whose strange illness is tied to an ancient bloodline awakening too soon. But the song that opens the door also sends a signal. Something hears Rin back. Now they must leave home. The sky is full of things that still believe freedom is too dangerous to be left in human hands. Rin does not know why the machines are listening. She only knows some of them have been waiting for her.
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