The swash spoke before the people did. Long before the First Tongue took form, the Nile sculpted its words in green along the desert’s silent mouth. Layla felt that ancient truth as she stepped off the battered skiff and onto the old dam, the slimy slush clinging to her sandals like the stink of empty memory.
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