Then he took a breath and quacked a long, wobbly, impossible sentence: "The water is cold—preep—the sky is sweet—preep—and I’m not broken—preep—I’m just in two notes—preep—like a song that’s learning to sing itself."
He just swam, and quacked, and preeped —and the world was wide enough for both. quack preep
"That’s Hodge," whispered Tethys. "He’s building a clock that doesn’t keep time. It keeps moments ." Then he took a breath and quacked a
And the bog filled with strange, beautiful, imperfect sounds: croak-ding, squawk-moo, quack-boing, hiss-pop. imperfect sounds: croak-ding
It was as if his voice had split in two: the first half was a proper duck’s quack, but the second half was a tiny, squeaky preep , like a chick that had swallowed a whistle.