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PART ONE

Initiation

"The land is dearer for the sea, the ocean for the shore"

--LUCY LARCOM

Chapter 1

I didn’t knohat I was doing there

Didn’t knohat I hoped to accomplish

Didn’t know, even, how I’d found myself in these cold, dark waters when I was supposed to be thousands of miles away, in the heart of the Pacific Ocean

But the fact that I shouldn’t have been there didn’t mean I didn’t want to be Because I did

I wanted to know

To see

To feel what I once had--even temporarily

The need to reassurewound inside of er with every day that passed I’d left here eight o because I had to Because I couldn’t not leave

Choosing the sea had been as necessary toso, I had left a lot behind

Tooheart

I couldn’t resist the urge one second longer With a feift kicks of an to swih to the surface And was completely disappointed by what I found

The sky abovethe landscape like an overabundance of fireflies When I’d been human, this had beenthe sand