![]() The villagers are kind and even reverent towards Water Claire, as they refer to Claire, who remembers nothing of her previous life. In Book 2, distant seafaring villagers find Claire shipwrecked in the sea and an old, childless midwife, Alys, takes Claire in and cares for her. Her son is taken by another boy, Jonas, and Claire boards a boat for Elsewhere, ostensibly to locate her son. However, Claire feels pulled to the Nurturing Center, where she finds and develops a secret relationship with her nameless son. Complications arise during Claire’s child’s birth, necessitating a C-section, and Claire is removed from being a Vessel and transferred into the general population, getting a job at a fish hatchery. The community has many regulations that promote anonymity and remove individual agency, in theory to foster a more communal environment. ![]() ![]() In Book 1, 14-year-old Claire gives birth in her insular community her child is taken from her, as per community rules, to be redistributed to another paired couple at a later date. ![]()
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