Part 3 Kilitas, 3.5 - 3.8 Summary

In the last few sections of Part 3, Kilitas, we find Rail, Moa, and Vago in the hidden community of fisher-people of Kilitas, deep below the city of Orokos.

Here they are interviewed by Kittiwake, an austere, practical woman of middling years who is one of the founders and the current leader of the community. At first Kittiwake is angry that the three have managed to gain entrance to her enclave, even though Moa was one of their own for many years. Kittiwake questions Vago as to what he is and why he is there. Rail and Moa try their best to diffuse the situation, and then Kittiwake sees Vago's bird, excited, she sends it away to be identified, hoping to use it as hope for her community that there really is a land outside of the island.

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