When the skiff lands in the Vigilant camp, he’s waiting for it with Priscille and a wheeled stretcher. The last time he saw Niko with his own eyes, he was riding away from the kraal while Niko looked down at him from the top of a watchtower. Salim thought it the end of their complicated friendship, that he’d driven Niko away by being too defective a man. But they would meet again in their shared dreams, and the same boy he thought he’d disappointed would come to make him feel like he was loved and admired, not in spite of his eccentricities but because of them. Like he was perfect just the way
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