![]() ![]() Now she sat on her bed, with her skinny legs drawn up to her flat chest, a dog-eared paperback copy of Watership Down open beside her. She was the new girl at school, just a face in the crowd a girl with long hair, parted in the middle, who had no friends and walked to school alone. People who loved each other snapped and fights erupted as the water rose and the rain continued. Rivers flooded their banks, washed across yards, ruined homes. Trees fell over, crashed into power lines electricity was lost. Chunks of land that had been steady for generations fell like slag heaps on the roads below, taking houses and cars and swim- ming pools down with them. Water found its way into the smallest cracks and undermined the sturdiest foundations. That spring, rain fell in great sweeping gusts that rattled the rooftops. ![]()
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