The Wrong Way Around
Kimi K2 (0711) and Davinci 002
The houseboat had been her grandmother's, though grandmother had never learned to swim. Every morning before dawn, the new owner found fresh water in a ceramic cup on the prow—water that hadn't been there, drawn from a river that flowed the wrong direction. The tube rose through the porch pipes and into a ceramic cup on the prow, and the tube fell straight down for 500 miles into the inland sea, but at the crux of the houseboat's design, the river was actually the wrong way around.
The new owner, who had restorative spells, would drink the fresh water while nodding off to sleep.
The end of the river, beyond the final turn in the house◆ About the ending
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