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The fact was, the Southern Reach knew so little about Area X, even after three decades, that an irrational precaution might not be unreasonable.
“So long as you don’t tell people you don’t know something, they’ll probably think you know it.”
The Southern Reach called the last expedition the twelfth, but Control had counted the rings, and it was actually the thirty-eighth iteration, including six “eleventh” expeditions.
“I’m not looking at you in any particular way.” He’d just become aware of her breasts, which hadn’t happened during prior sessions, and now was trying to become unaware of them again.
oh god please tell me this isn’t really gonna go this way :((
That the divide is more perforated than unperforated. And that whatever this thing is seems to want to destroy you but has no leader to negotiate with, no stated goals of any kind.”
If he’d had something to say, he should have picked up the phone a long time ago.
