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“his private school manners were paved over by something that had cracked”
private, manners, paved, cracked
“this herd of wombats [being] the closest thing to family [he] might ever know”
herd, wombats, family, know
“message of acknowledgement… or friendship”
message, friendship
“the worst mistake of his long life”
mistake, his, life
“know [humans] love and pain and hate and joy”
[humans], pain, joy
“a huge sense of responsibility”
sense, responsibility
“spine-straight”
spine
“always so controlled”
always, controlled
“concentrating in a singular, precise kind of way”
concentrating, singular, precise, way
“to a simple being of flame and hunger”
simple, flame, hunger
“the landscape that had re-spawned them”
landscape, respawned,
“the more Charlotte struggled the more I worried;”
Charlotte, struggle, worried
“I started looking for a coffin,”
looking, coffin
“I swore to bury her whole and still and cold.”
swore, bury, whole, cold
“Levi is filled with confidence and a renewed sense of purpose".”
Levi, confidence, purpose
“Levi is not well. Levi is not realising; he could have just spoken to her.”
Levi, not well, realising, spoken
“In a mind like his, grand acts will always trump honest words.”
mind, his, grand acts, honest words
“An epiphany might have dawned upon him: What am I doing? Is she even worried about her eventual death?”
epiphany, dawned, doing, eventual death
“From his right eye a drop of fire descended, globular and hot, straight into the gurgling mouth of his daughter”
right eye, drop, fire, globular, straight, gurgling, daughter
"tears were flames, and they were coming from within Charlotte”
tears, flames, within, Charlotte
“I need to stay calm so my flames don’t spark”
need, calm, flames, spark
“If I am to leave Nicola, I need to control them without her touch.”
leave, nicola, control them, w/out, touch
“He does not look healthy.”
he, not, healthy
“his hair, usually so neat, is long and knotted”
hair, neat, knotted
“There is no recognition in his eyes”
no, recognition, eyes
“And she took with her the most human parts of him.”
took, her, human parts, him
“When his son started unravelling, he intervened with only half his flaming heart.”
unravelling, intervened, half, flaming, heart
“He was born in the instant a woman… smacked two stones together.”
born, instant , woman, smacked, stones
“controlling fireworks, [and] shape-shifting”
fireworks, shape-shifting
"As powerful as a wombat“
Powerful, wombat
"Insipid wombats”
Insipid
“monstrous cormorant… glorious cormorant”
monstrous, glorious
“An epiphany might have dawned upon him… But this chance was destroyed the moment Levi picked the… pelt from Hough’s… fingers.”
epiphany, dawned, chance, destroyed, pelt, fingers
“my thoughts were clearer”
thoughts, clearer
“But it wasn’t just the pelt; even before then… my memories were murky”
wasn’t, pelt, before, memories, murky
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