this unfortunately did not make me feel much. there was also the fact that at one point i was just thinking that the story would take a different turn (my notes said, "

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what if this is some insane experiment made to test their behavior underwater and they're not actually in the ocean and it's the centre that's keeping them there with everything cut off, because even miri didn't send her off so she couldn't really 'see' where leah was going.

") so i was surprised to know that it actually didn't turn anywhere and all we got was some mumbo-jumbo here and there