![]() ![]() Her mother explains to Nere that before her birth, she and other children were genetically engineered to be able to breathe underwater in order that they might survive in the ocean. Now it just her mother, a research scientist, and her, but her mother is beginning to act strange.įinally, the time has come. How can she survive there? She lost her father two years earlier in a storm at sea, and her older brother who was having trouble in school, disappeared after that. Hearing that she will have to move inland is devastating to her. She is only comfortable when she is swimming with the dolphins. In the midst of these problems, Nere is concerned with her worsening shortness of breath and weak eyes. ![]() ![]() Although the fisherpeople on the coastlines live off of the sea, they are now being ordered to move inland to aid in crop production for the country. Smugglers control available resources and their prices, but everyone knows that it is the greedy government officials who patronize the smuggling operations. ![]() Global drought has reduced food production to dangerously low levels, and an overreaching government equipped with deadly weapons cruelly manipulates the surviving population. ![]()
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