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• While Cassia, Indie, and the boy from the village are running 26 miles to the Carving:
  Indie: A marathon. That's what you call a run like this. I heard a story about it.
  Cassia: Can you tell it to me?
  Indie: You don't want to hear it.
  Cassia: I do. (Anything to keep my mind off how hard this is.)
  Indie: It was at the end of the world. A message had to be delivered. Someone ran to deliver it. Twenty-six miles. Like us. He made it. Gave the message.
  Cassia: And then they rewarded him? Did an air ship come down and save him?
  Indie: No. He delivered his message. Then he died.