You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you magnificently well.

Our story for Issue 150, March 2019,

is Treasure Diving and is by Kai Hudson.

For those of you who have been with us throughout March or even before that

through the nearly 10 years of stories we've given you via podcast,

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Now, our author, Kai Hudson, lives in sunny California where she writes hikes and spends entirely too much time daydreaming of far off fantasy worlds. Her work has appeared in anathema spec from the margins

and metaphorosis among others. I hope you can sit back. Relax and let me tell you a story.

There is a word in kuwati for the swallowing darkness that can only be found here in the deepest parts of the sea.

Ruhava, alone.

Ilana breathes in the silence.

The water tastes dull and flat, not salty like top tide or sweet tangy like her home estuary.

A faint aftertaste of metal blossoms in the folds of her rear gill flaps.

Ugh, the pressure suits suits filters must be malfunctioning again. The thin layer of woven

exostill sits awkward and tight against her skin, irritating the cilia.

She's going to come out with suit rash.

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