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Chasing the Tide
There is a piling man on the dock in Faro. He goes into the water every day, touches the wooden piles that have not rotted for four hundred years, drives down the new ones, and pulls out the old ones. There was a stone pile under the water, but he didn't tell anyone. There is a gray streak on his right middle finger. My father said it was a birthmark and he wrapped it with a strip of cloth for many years. One day he touched the stone pile under the water. When his fingertips touched the concent
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The Dragon Banner Points West
The fifty-fifth year of Yongwu, the waters beyond the Cape of Good Hope. Zheng He stands at the stern of his treasure ship, gazing west across the sea. The dragon banner whips overhead as the fleet turns, not homeward, but west. He seals a map he has never shown anyone inside an iron box and orders it sent back to Penglai Island. The map shows a route, and at its end are three words: The Return-to-the-Void Bureau. Six hundred years later, a young officer in exile steps off the docks at Ports
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