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| | "Uncharted Waters" by Julian Maven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Still, horribly, I am able to comprehend it, for no reason I understand, and slowly I realize the creature across the sea is speaking to me, though I am out of her sight with six inches of starboard between us: |
 | | I lurk under the Scales of Justice in the Hall of the Two Truths, as Osiris and Nephthys gaze on and judge if ye heart be heavier than the weight of ye sins. |
 | | The captain is not in his quarters, and frantically I push my way past his oaken desk, perpetually cluttered with maps and sextants, compasses and inkwells, stumbling in my panic over his well-dressed bunk of Persian silk and Oriental quilts. |
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