Reborn: Apocalypse Tyrant Endlessly Pampers Her Sickly Lover novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Mountain
The island rose out of the sea in green terraces, and at the top of it was a mountain with snow on its shoulder.
The Meridian Star dropped anchor in a quiet bay before noon.
Nine hundred people lined the rails and said nothing at all.
Then a child shouted, "Trees!" and the whole ship started to laugh and cry at once.
By evening the first lifeboats had gone ashore.
The trader's people met them on a stone quay with lanterns and baskets of bread.
Lois walked up the beach in her bandana, tasted a tomato from the first basket, and announced that she would be needing the settlement's kitchen immediately.
Veda stayed on the ship one more night, for the infirmary.
She went ashore the next morning, on the last boat, with a bad leg and a bag.
Tobias was waiting on the quay.
He had his sleeves rolled up, and his hair had grown too long again, and he was standing without a hand on anything.
"You're late," he said.
"I was washing sheets."
"Of course you were."
The settlement's clinic was a whitewashed room above the harbor, with a window full of sea.
Celia was there, with a tray and a crate and a new stethoscope someone had found for her.
She had slept, finally.
It showed.
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