A.B. Channing

❖ “The first of Lix’i’s guards that I encounter has her spear in hand, pointed out towards the open water.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, Taiki returns somewhere he hasn’t been in almost a decade. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1516548063-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022 
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, an evacuation order confirms a far more sinister storm pattern. 
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/38-lingmei-125961996
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: Neptune and Uranus’s blue color comes from a layer of methane in their atmospheres, which absorbs red color from the sun's light.

Hi, August! I came across your profile on the NaNoWriMo website and I’m curious as to why you’ve created something called ‘everything but words’ on the (soon to be shut down) counting words website? I’d sent an invitation but my account has my real name (and again, it’s shutting down.)

❖ “The next wave of Karu evacuees arrives already asking where their kin are.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, Sar gets a worrying tip-off from the stone forest’s edge.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1516548013-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, a fortuitous phone call finally reveals what’s going on beneath the ground on Jenu, and why it has eluded the researchers all this time.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/37-alex-125424216
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: During a severe solar storm, Earth loses about 100 tons of its atmosphere into space.

❖ “We’ll want to be at least halfway back to the island of the yellow fish before our work is discovered by anyone who can do anything about it.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, evacuations of the Sand-Coral islands officially begin. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1516547970-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022 
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, a nighttime trip to somewhere they’re not supposed to be finally confirms the team’s suspicions.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/36-yahvi-124905030
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: Despite being the closest to the sun, Mercury is NOT the hottest planet in the solar system. That title goes to Venus, which gets superheated by its thick atmosphere of heat-trapping greenhouse gasses.

❖ “I sneak all the way up to the top of the reef and peek through it into the lagoon. Below me used to be bare sand for sunbathing. Now seaweed beds stretch as far as I can see.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, the first village in the proposed evacuation area weighs in on Taiki’s proposition. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1516547821-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022 
          
          ❖ Want to read further? This book posts a month ahead on Patreon! 
          
          https://www.patreon.com/collection/624437?view=expanded 
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, Lingmei finally identifies the storm pattern.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/35-lingmei-124389169 
          
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: A comet’s tail is caused by solar radiation vaporizing materials (like ice) in the comet itself. These stream away from the comet body, carrying dust with them.

❖ “No eruption,” murmurs Yaz when we wake on the third day. ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, the infiltration of the Sand-Coral Cluster has begun.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481295255-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, an anxious toddler and a strengthening storm prompt a sober round of contingency plans among the camp’s leaders. 
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/34-tobias-123954031
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: Neptune’s winds are the fastest in the solar system, reaching 2,100 km/h (580 m/s; 1,300 mph).

❖ “I spin around. Xivay has both hands on the wall, xir face a mask of alarm.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, an ominous ocean event shakes things up in Roshaska and beyond. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481295211-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, the second storm warning in as many weeks prompts a quick pack-down, more extensive than ever before. 
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/33-lingmei-123368387
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: During intense solar flares, astronauts see bright flashing streaks of light as a result of high-energy particles zipping through their eyeballs.

Hey, are you participating in ONC this year? I’ve been waiting for something new on your profile in case you were, but I haven’t seen anything.

❖ “I’m glad Sar’s next messenger comes to find me directly before delivering her news.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, news from the new alliance’s surface branch prompts an important step for Taiki.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481295166-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022 
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, a major experimental success spills over into an unnerving realization for the scientific teams. 
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/32-tobias-122930210 
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: If earth became a black hole, it would be about 0.69 inches (17.4mm) across—about the size of a fingernail.

❖ “I have rarely come so close to actually, physically dropping what I’m doing as when Ruka reappears from the open water around the island of the yellow fish.” ❖
          
          Hello friends! I come bearing chapters. This week in Kels, Sar and Makeba meet face to face for the very first time. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1481295119-listen-to-the-water-full-series-wattys-2022 
          
          ❖ Meanwhile in Rocks Can Dance, the teams’ relationship with Sanigon Inc. has graduated to corporate espionage—in both directions.
          
          https://www.patreon.com/posts/31-alex-122318310 
          
          ❖ Fun fact of the day: The northern lights are caused by charged particles hitting earth’s atmosphere, and they generate power. Lots of it. Over 1 trillion watts on a single auroral display, in some cases. We can’t harvest it, though; it’s too thinly spread out.