Mist dusted the glassy surface of the water.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYRdGPxJmw
Dawn, placid and cool with early spring,831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTCn4x271p
the boy dipped the top of his head into the air.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPYQOdC4yc
Gaze dark as jet scanned the shoreline831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCanRxN6Ci
where homes sprouted moss beyond the sandy ribbon of beach.
A gull chopped a warbled caw,831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UKhu6kNo0
Dipped then spun onto the brine.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoXkSX6GpV
The seals had left him, preferring the safety of the jagged stones.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXjf3jwKiP
Cagily as a crab at low tide, he paddled with pale arms831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnGAGdQMyy
towards the land.
The boy had once had a human name831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCj1fYXFsU
one his tongue had never learned to say831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVfwXWIjDi
but that his mother had never forgotten.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgmg9aeCXG
The seals had called him their own831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzPPcrz3Js
as long as he could remember.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GaHJ05Kez
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All was silent, as it hadn’t been in months.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7sGJ3lxOur
Not since the giant, creaking monsters like iron land whales831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTyI3XJ9Hw
could be spotted amid a garden of smoke and noise.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLeAxPJskJY
Noise that filled his lungs like salt,831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgDMKOwLtyo
the boy was terrified by the chaos and yet drawn to it831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnjS802twW
as his humanity drove him towards the danger.
The seals did not argue. Nor did the gulls.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1U4zqxVFg
Fourteen years were enough to teach him what they could831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNJTUtTX3J
and now it was his choice to make.
Naked with wrinkled toes and fingers,831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVChKu2ToOw
Cold dripping from his black curls,831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1a9DkK1rlN
the boy made landfall and crawled onto the shore.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PhXlBvwdt
Legs like a newborn lamb, he stumbled up towards the village.
There was a white washed cottage with a row of sea roses,831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxLRb3IwoMb
frothy smoke trailing up from the chimney in the thatch roof.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jajgKnNN2
The boy paused at an eruption of voices within.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbbqQboBzu
He hid and watched.
A man with tall, shining boots of black831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfaZlIdLvO
buttons like bright shells down his barreled chest831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhNntbqDzim
Gripped the arm of an old man,831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJy1xv50C3
bent and craggy as rocks pockmarked by barnacles831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObexSJ8A0t
slathered in seaweed.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQH6pHrOQB
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On the old man’s chest, a strange symbol,831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDXNO8Q9QV
a starfish in tide pools but bright yellow.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvrKQI7QOj
Cut roughly and sewn onto his sweater831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjJhDgdl15
like the brands the boy had watched farmers give their cattle831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYetzAOtOQ
on fields lining the grey ocean.
The boy had seen before what the man in his boots and buttons held.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3f2eJAwzO
When the noise had begun on the shores,831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdCDyhExer
he had seen them used before on other men831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyoCEkamvHg
a horrible bang and so much gore,831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02vL3DzDpa
leaving drifting tendrils of smoky red in the water.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNwlXH3tFYP
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A sharp pop, like when the strong waves find a crevice in the rocks831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqg2kGkWvVS
and the old man goes still on the soggy ground.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxFqhwpMNY
The boy watches silently as the other man walks away without another look.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyGhtiE0zR
The old man stirs, a ragged breath that pains the boy to hear.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeExuHFpQqT
He edges up towards the cottage831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAV3FEGwXD0
crimson soaking between the cracks in the rock walkway.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItPR3mEODt
The boys leaves bare footprints in blood that isn’t his own.
Crouching by the man, he grips his hand till it goes limp.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg12Ztk8abP
The boy doesn’t know why he needed to do it.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPMfNplOTjX
His couldn’t imagine not.831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSg9llXzL1E
One last look at the ruin of the world831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHznF6r3EHq
and the boy makes his choice.
He rips the cloth star from the man’s sweater831Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI7SdpqlZuz
and returns to the sea.
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