Saffron connects with the Porcelain Walker through wires growing out of their fingers. While their cybernetic prairie dog body slumps to the side they take direct control of the machine. Naida keeping watch on top of the hill fires a warning shot at the approaching Floating Barge and kills the pony after the caravan guards ignore her. Aida addresses the sharpshooter and insists that she and the other Greenlanders must be allowed to travel to the Porcelain Citadel to work for the princes but Saffron intimidates Formatore through the speakers of the walker until he tears up the contract. They promise the Greenlanders to escort them to the Spectrum Palace where they might find work that doesn’t include selling their body to the abmortal princes. Sarqo takes the Greenlanders back to the Jade Baobab while the others ride the walker back to Vicar’s Beach.
The walker gets trapped in the shallow waters south of the Three Sticks and when Azure dives to free the leg she spots hundreds of geometrically arranged artificial lights glowing on the lakebed.They arrive at Vicar’s Beach at
night and while the others sleep Naida spots half a dozen White Crab Vomes
emerging from the waves carrying objects to the inverted dome lying in the
middle of multi-colored dunes.
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