[The other end of the narrow alley leads to a more open area of sharp rocks and flowing water-it doesn't seem particularly safe, but definitely cleaner than the toxic smell to the Fissures' air up to now.]
[Sitting at the edge of the shallow, polluted water was the likely source of that sound; a small child in similarly ragged and threadbare clothes, a makeshift cane of salvaged metal and wood lying nearby as he worked on the frame of a boat built from a pile of rusted scrap metal beside him.]
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[Sitting at the edge of the shallow, polluted water was the likely source of that sound; a small child in similarly ragged and threadbare clothes, a makeshift cane of salvaged metal and wood lying nearby as he worked on the frame of a boat built from a pile of rusted scrap metal beside him.]