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Now, with the increasing interdependence between himself and Mij came a knowledge of an obscure need, that of being trusted implicitly by some creature.

Two other people in time shared Mijbil's love: `` it remained around us three that his orb revolved when he was not away in his own imponderable world of wave and water ; ;

we were his Trinity, and he behaved towards us with a mixture of trust and abuse, passion and irritation.

In turn each of us in our own way depended, as gods do, upon his worship ''.