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"It was an ordinary morning on the edge of the Central Plains: a perfectly clear sky, an infinite dome of blue. A morning for mirages.The cicadas created a constant roar, drowning out all lesser noise. A passing carriage had once come within just a dozen rods of the girl before she heard it, so she always heeded her father's warnings to check the Highway when she first arrived at her garden, and often afterward. She climbed the slope up from the garden onto the roadbed. The surrounding land was lower, and gently rolling. The raised roadbed was as flat as water and as straight as a shaft of light, for as far as one could see in either direction.
So she saw the traveler -- a tiny dot, floating on a shimmering silver band, way out at the horizon."
The start of her adventures...