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My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea. Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me. We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever been. And only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.

Anne McCaffrey

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