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"You were always a creature of the shore, Elias," she continued. Her voice sounded like polished stones grinding together. "Safe. Grounded. You lived your life by seconds and minutes. But out here, time is measured in fathoms."

It didn't come from the water or the air, but from the seat behind him. He didn't turn around. He couldn't. "You were always a creature of the shore,

Elias finally turned. The seat was empty. Only a small, wet pebble sat where she might have been—a piece of sea glass, worn smooth by a decade of tides. Grounded

"Because the shore was too loud. Everyone was so busy being 'someone.' Down there," she gestured to the dark expanse beneath the hull, "you are just part of the pulse. There is a peace in the weight of the water. It holds you so tightly you don't have to hold yourself together anymore." He didn't turn around

Soon, there was no "up" or "down," only the shifting gradients of azure. The water here wasn't the friendly turquoise of the postcards; it was a bruised, heavy indigo. The Deep Blue Sea. To the sailors, it was the "Devil’s Orchard," a place where the pressure of the water matched the pressure of one’s own regrets.